Joseph Farrell is Professor Emeritus in Italian at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow. He has translated several Italian novels including by Leonardo Sciascia as well as other novels by Valerio Varesi. Theatre works include English editions of plays by Dario Fo, Eduardo De Filippo, Carlo Goldoni and Luigi Pirandello and three translations of film scripts by Giuseppe Tornatore. He is co-author with actor-author, Franca Rame, of Non è tempo di nostalgia (2013) and La mia vita, le mie battaglie (2015) with the novelist Dacia Maraini.
In the official citation explaining the decision to award the 1997 Nobel Prize for Literature to Dario Fo, the Swedish Royal Academy stated that he had emulated the jesters of the Middle Ages in scourging authority and upholding the dignity of the downtrodden. It went on to add that...
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