The Nobel prizewinning playwright and actor Dario Fo, famous for his cutting political satire in plays such as The Accidental Death of an Anarchist, has died aged 90. Dario Fo obituary Read moreFo, who won the Nobel prize for literature in 1997, had been suffering from lung problems for months and had been in hospital for 12 days, the Corriere della Sera newspaper reported. “In Dario Fo, Italy has lost one of the great protagonists of the theatre, of culture, of the civic life of our country,” he said. Facebook Twitter Pinterest Dario Fo and Beppe Grillo at a M5S rally in Milan in 2013. Another writer and political activist, Erri de Luca, said Fo was the happiest winner of the Nobel prize for literature that ever lived.

Source: The Guardian October 13, 2016 07:32 UTC