Jean Anouilh

Jean Anouilh
Anouilh c. 1940
Anouilh c. 1940
BornJean Marie Lucien Pierre Anouilh
(1910-06-23)23 June 1910
Bordeaux, France
Died3 October 1987(1987-10-03) (aged 77)
Lausanne, Switzerland
OccupationDramatist and screenwriter
Literary movementModernism
Notable worksThe Lark
Becket
Traveler without Luggage
Antigone
Notable awardsPrix mondial Cino Del Duca
Spouse
  • Monelle Valentin (m. 1931)
  • Nicole Lançon (m. 1953)
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Jean Marie Lucien Pierre Anouilh (French: [ʒɑ̃ anuj];[1] 23 June 1910 – 3 October 1987) 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 play Antigone, an adaptation of Sophocles' classical drama, that was 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.[2] 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.[3]

  1. ^ Not, as often mispronounced, French pronunciation: [anwi].
  2. ^ Norwich, John Julius (1990). Oxford Illustrated Encyclopedia Of The Arts. USA: Oxford University Press. p. 18. ISBN 978-0198691372.
  3. ^ Cite error: The named reference Smith was invoked but never defined (see the help page).