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Jean Anouilh (June 23, 1910 – October 3, 1987) was a French dramatist.
He was born in Bordeaux and had Basque ancestry. He started his career as a jobbing writer in the film industry. In 1931, his first play, L'Hermine, flopped, but he followed it up with a string of others. Anouilh was an extremely private man, and very little is known about his private life except for what can be deduced from reading his plays. It is known that he married Monelle Valentin, an actress. He has a very long career, and is not associated with one specific school of dramatic thought. His plays are vastly different from each other. Some are classic farces with dark twists, some adaptations of Greek myths, and some explorations of life and love.
He was an outstanding writer with a unique ability to craft a wide spectrum of brilliant masterpieces. In 1970 his work was recognized with the Prix mondial Cino Del Duca.
Jean Anouilh died in Lausanne, Switzerland.
Works include
- L'Hermine (The Ermine) (1931)
- Mandarine (1933)
- Y avait un prisonnier (There Was a Prisoner) (1935)
- Le voyageur sans bagage (Traveller without Luggage) (1937)
- La sauvage (Restless Heart) (1938)
- Le Bal des Voleurs (Thieves' Carnival) (1938)
- Léocadia (Time Remembered) (1940)
- Eurydice (Point of Departure and Legend of Lovers) (1941)
- Le rendez-vous de Senlis (The Rendezvous at Senlis and Dinner with the Family) (1941)
- Antigone (1942)
- Roméo et Jeannette (Romeo and Jeannette) (1946)
- L'Invitation au Chateau (Ring Round the Moon) (1947)
- Ardèle ou la Marguerite (Ardèle; The Cry of the Peacock) (1948)
- La répétition ou l'amour puni (The Rehearsal) (1950)
- Colombe (Mademoiselle Colombe) (1951)
- La valse des toréadors (The Waltz of the Toreadors) (1952)
- L'Alouette (The Lark) (1952)
- Ornifle ou le courant d'air (Ornifle or It's Later than you Think) (1955)
- Pauvre Bitos ou le dîner de têtes (Poor Bitos, or The Masked Dinner) (1956)
- L'hurluberlu ou le réactionnaire amoureux (The Fighting Cock) (1959)
- La petite Molière (1959)
- Becket ou l'honneur de Dieu (Becket or The Honor of God) (1959)
- La Grotte (The Cavern) (1961)
- Le boulanger, la boulangère et le petit mitron (1968)
- Cher Antoine; ou l'amour raté (Dear Antoine; or The Love that Failed) (1969)
- Les poisons rouges; ou Mon père, ce héros (The Goldfish) (1970)
- Tu étais si gentil quand tu étais petit (You Were So Nice When You Were Young) (1972)
- Monsieur Barnett (1974)
- L'Arrestation (1975)
- Chers zoizeaux (1976)
- Vive Henri IV (1978)
- La Culotte (1978)
- La Foire d'empoigne (Catch as Catch Can) (1979)
- Le Nombril (The Navel) (1981)
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