# Jean Genet

> A novelist and playwright who turned a criminal youth into raw material for fiction that violated every polite boundary—sex, theft, betrayal—and made literature from the underworld.

*French novelist, playwright, poet and political activist (1910-1986)*

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## Identity
- **Profile type:** Writer / Author
- **Category:** Writers
- **Country:** France
- **Born:** 1910-12-19
- **Died:** 1986-04-14
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

Jean Genet was born 19 December 1910 and spent his early years as a vagabond and petty criminal, drifting through Europe's margins. That life became the basis for his writing: novels like *Our Lady of the Flowers* and *The Thief's Journal* pulled from his own experience of prisons, hustling, and outcasts. He moved into theatre with plays including *The Maids*, *The Balcony*, and *The Screens*, works that broke open questions of power, ritual, and identity. By the time of his death on 15 April 1986, he'd become a major figure in French letters and a voice for the dispossessed.

## Fame
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## Topics
#Writers, #Writer / Author, #Literature, #Theatre, #Poetry, #Television, #Screenwriting, #Fiction

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