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Antonin Artaud

1896 - 1948

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Antoine Maria Joseph Paul Artaud (; French: [ɑ̃tɔnɛ̃ aʁto]; 4 September 1896 – 4 March 1948), better known as Antonin Artaud, was a French artist who worked across a variety of media. He is best known for his writings, as well as his work in the theatre and cinema. Widely recognized as a major figure of the European avant-garde, he had a particularly strong influence on twentieth-century theatre through his conceptualization of the Theatre of Cruelty. Known for his raw, surreal and transgressive work, his texts explored themes from the cosmologies of ancient cultures, philosophy, the occult, mysticism and indigenous Mexican and Balinese practices. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Antonin Artaud is the 317th most popular writer (down from 308th in 2019), the 365th most popular biography from France (down from 347th in 2019) and the 54th most popular French Writer.

Antonin Artaud was a French playwright, actor, and poet. He is most famous for his writing on the theater, especially his work The Theater and Its Double.

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Among writers, Antonin Artaud ranks 317 out of 7,302. Before him are J. M. Coetzee, Ismail Kadare, Herman Melville, Max Brod, Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau, and Ernst Jünger. After him are Doris Lessing, Héloïse, François Mauriac, Henri Charrière, Italo Calvino, and Marguerite de Navarre.

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Among people born in 1896, Antonin Artaud ranks 11. Before him are Lev Vygotsky, André Breton, Imre Nagy, A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, Tristan Tzara, and Roman Jakobson. After him are Gerty Cori, Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, Konstantin Rokossovsky, Robert S. Mulliken, Klement Gottwald, and Trygve Lie. Among people deceased in 1948, Antonin Artaud ranks 14. Before him are Edvard Beneš, Franz Lehár, Osamu Dazai, Edith Roosevelt, Walther von Brauchitsch, and Ferdinand I of Bulgaria. After him are Andrei Zhdanov, Hugo Boss, Witold Pilecki, Tamam Shud case, Nikolai Berdyaev, and Karl Brandt.

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In France

Among people born in France, Antonin Artaud ranks 365 out of 6,770. Before him are Baldwin I of Jerusalem (1058), Paul Ricœur (1913), Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin (1699), Luc Montagnier (1932), Denis Papin (1647), and Pierre Boulez (1925). After him are Diane de Poitiers (1499), Héloïse (1101), François Mauriac (1885), Henri Charrière (1906), Napoléon Louis Bonaparte (1804), and Claude of France (1499).

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Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Antonin Artaud ranks 54. Before him are Alphonse Daudet (1840), François de La Rochefoucauld (1613), Guillaume de Machaut (1300), Chrétien de Troyes (1135), J. M. G. Le Clézio (1940), and Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau (1749). After him are Héloïse (1101), François Mauriac (1885), Henri Charrière (1906), Marguerite de Navarre (1492), Colette (1873), and André Malraux (1901).

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