Italian satirist Dario Fo awarded Nobel Prize in Literature

From: The Boston Globe | Date: October 10, 1997| Author: Mark Feeney, Globe Staff | Copyright information

Dario Fo, a 71-year-old Italian actor-playwright whose irreverent comedy has drawn the ire of the Vatican and whose radical politics caused the US government to deny him a visa in 1980, won the 1997 Nobel Prize in Literature, it was announced yesterday in Stockholm.

In addition to writing more than 70 works that range from plays to cabaret sketches, Fo has performed as a mime, improvisational artist, and political satirist. His best-known plays are "Mistero Buffo" (1969), a one-man tou...

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