The article, published on "The New York Times" website by Jonathan Kandell on October 2016, is a short biography of the famous italian playwright Dario Fo.
The journalist focuses his attention on the most important positive and negative aspects that carachterized Fo's carrier.
Born and educated in a socialist family, that helped Jews and partisans during World War II, Dario Fo grew as a strong and unconventional man.
After the first performances on stage, he gained worldwide success thanks to his more than 80 plays, most of them translted into different languages.
He and his wife's protests against violence, hunger, inhumane exploitation caused them censorship, death threats, police protection.
Despite this, Fo obtained great success and international praises, like the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1997.
At the end of the article the author underlines the importance of Dario Fo as an engaged writer and his message of encouragement towards writers' social and political engagement.
March 2017
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