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Jean Anouilh

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French playwright (1910-1987)

FranceWritersLived 1910 to 1987 · aged 77
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Jean Marie Lucien Pierre Anouilh was a French dramatist and screenwriter whose career spanned five decades.

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1980Grand prix du théâtre
1970Prix mondial Cino Del Duca
1961Tony Award for Best Play

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Jean Marie Lucien Pierre Anouilh was a French dramatist and screenwriter whose career spanned five decades. Though his work ranged from high drama to absurdist farce, Anouilh is best known for his 1944 production of Sophocles' Antigone, which, though performed without objection by censors, was nevertheless seen as an attack on Marshal Pétain's Vichy government. His plays are less experimental than those of his contemporaries, having clearly organized plot and eloquent dialogue. One of France's most prolific writers after World War II, much of Anouilh's work deals with themes of maintaining integrity in a world of moral compromise.

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France
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Lived 1910 to 1987 · aged 77
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