My First Seven Years (Plus a Few More): A Memoir

Dario Fo

Macmillan, Feb 4, 2014 - Biography & Autobiography - 256 pages

An extraordinary coming-of-age memoir by the Nobel-Prize-winning playwright

My First Seven Years is Dario Fo's fantastic, enchanting memoir of his youth spent in Northern Italy on the shores of Lago Maggiore. As a child, Fo grew up in a picturesque village teeming with glass-blowers, smugglers and storytellers. Of his teenage years, Fo recounts the struggles of the Fascists and Partisans, the years of World War II, and his own tragicomic experience trying to desert the Fascist army.

In a series of colorful vignettes, Fo draws us into a remarkable early life filled with characters and anecdotes that would become the inspiration for his own creative genius.

About the author

DARIO FO was born in 1926 in northern Italy. He began working in theater as a comic and actor. Together with his wife, Franca Rame, he has been highly successful as an actor, director, and writer of satirical comedies for the theatre. His work has been politically important in Italy and won him international acclaim. In 1997 Dario Fo was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. JOSEPH FARRELL is an award-winning translator of Italian novels and plays and is the author of Dario Fo and Franca Rame: Harlequins of the Revolution. He lives in Scotland.

Bibliographic information

• Title: My First Seven Years (Plus a Few More): A Memoir
• Author: Dario Fo
• Translated by: Joseph Farrell
• Publisher: Macmillan, 2014
• ISBN: 1466864435, 9781466864436
• Length: 256 pages
• Subjects: Biography & Autobiography / Entertainment & Performing Arts; Biography & Autobiography / Literary Figures