(Jonathan Kandell’s article appeared in The New York Times, 10/13; via Pam Green.)
Dario Fo, the Italian playwright, director and performer whose scathingly satirical work earned him both praise and condemnation, as well as the 1997 Nobel Prize in Literature, died on Thursday in Milan. He was 90.
His death was confirmed by his Italian publisher, Chiarelettere.
Mr. Fo wrote more than 80 plays, many of them in collaboration with his wife, Franca Rame, who died in 2013, and his work was translated into dozens of languages.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/14/arts/international/dario-fo-playwright-nobel-literature.html?_r=0
