Dario Fo

Dario Fo is primarily a Nobel Prize-winning Italian author and playwright. Dario also has skills as an actor, costume designer, director and set designer. His debut work was Poer nano ed altre storie from 1951. Fo has been extremely prolific and his works have covered a multitude of themes.

Career

Dario Fo debuted in 1951 with the work Poer nano ed altre storie. He has written many plays and a number of them has been translated into English. Fo often works together with his wife, actress Franca Rame. 2007 was a great year for Fo, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature and was ranked Joint Seventh with Stephen Hawking in The Daily Telegraph's list of 100 greatest living geniuses.

Books (Titles translated into English)

  • Poer nano ed altre storie (1951)

  • Archangels Don't Play Pinball (1959)

  • He Had Two Pistols with White and Black Eyes (1960)

  • He Who Steals a Foot is Lucky in Love (1961)

  • Isabella, Three Tall Ships, and a Con Man(1961)

  • Mistero Buffo (Comic Mystery, 1969)

  • The Worker Knows 300 Words, the Boss 1000, That's Why He's the Boss (1969)

  • Accidental Death of an Anarchist (1970)

  • Fedayin (1971)

  • The Bawd (1973)

  • The Bawd (1973)

  • We Won't Pay! We Won't Pay! (1974)

  • Mama's Marijuana is the Best (1976)

  • All House, Bed, and Church (1977)

  • The Tale of a Tiger (1978)

  • Trumpets and Raspberries (1981)

  • The Open Couple (1983)

  • Elizabeth: Almost by Chance a Woman (1984)

  • Eva's Diary (1984)

  • The History of Masks, 1984

  • One was Nude and One wore Tails (1985)

  • Abducting Diana (1986)

  • The Tricks of the Trade (1987)

  • The Zeedonk and the Shoe (1988)

  • The Pope and the Witch (1989)

  • A Woman Alone (1991)

  • Johan Padan and the Discovery of the Americas (1992)
  • The Devil with Boobs (1997)

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