candidate: Modern literary figures and Nobel laureates are nationalist poet Giosuè Carducci in 1906 , realist writer Grazia Deledda in 1926 , modern theatre author Luigi Pirandello in 1936 , poets Salvatore Quasimodo in 1959 and Eugenio Montale in 1975 , satirist and theatre author Dario Fo in 1997 .