# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/martin-esslin
# Generated: 2026-08-14T03:25:16.852Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/martin-esslin"
name: "Martin Esslin"
slug: "martin-esslin"
description: "Martin Julius Esslin OBE was a Hungarian-born British producer, dramatist, journalist, adaptor and translator, critic, academic scholar and professor of drama, known for coining the term \"theatre of the absurd\" in his 1961 book The Theatre of the Absurd. This work has been called \"the most influential theatrical text of the 1960s\"."
tagline: "British playwright, theatre critic, scholar (1918-2002)"
gender: "male"
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category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1918-06-06"
deathDate: "2002-02-24"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
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platforms:
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump