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Eugène Ionesco

1909 - 1994

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Eugène Ionesco (; French: [øʒɛn jɔnɛsko]; born Eugen Ionescu, Romanian: [e.uˈdʒen joˈnesku] ; 26 November 1909 – 28 March 1994) was a Romanian-French playwright who wrote mostly in French, and was one of the foremost figures of the French avant-garde theatre in the 20th century. Ionesco instigated a revolution in ideas and techniques of drama, beginning with his "anti play", The Bald Soprano which contributed to the beginnings of what is known as the Theatre of the Absurd, which includes a number of plays that, following the ideas of the philosopher Albert Camus, explore concepts of absurdism and surrealism. He was made a member of the Académie française in 1970, and was awarded the 1970 Austrian State Prize for European Literature, and the 1973 Jerusalem Prize. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Eugène Ionesco is the 158th most popular writer (down from 146th in 2019), the 5th most popular biography from Romania and the most popular Romanian Writer.

Eugène Ionesco is most famous for his absurdist play, "The Bald Soprano."

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Among writers, Eugène Ionesco ranks 158 out of 7,302. Before him are Carlo Collodi, Plautus, Yasunari Kawabata, H. P. Lovecraft, Mary Shelley, and Samuel Beckett. After him are Ivan Turgenev, Henryk Sienkiewicz, Tomas Tranströmer, Guillaume Apollinaire, Jean Racine, and Elias Canetti.

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Among people born in 1909, Eugène Ionesco ranks 2. Before him is Stepan Bandera. After him are Nicholas Winton, Juliana of the Netherlands, Simone Weil, Osamu Dazai, James Mason, Edward Tatum, Mohammed Daoud Khan, U Thant, Francis Bacon, and Andrei Gromyko. Among people deceased in 1994, Eugène Ionesco ranks 8. Before him are Ayrton Senna, Richard Nixon, Karl Popper, Charles Bukowski, Erich Honecker, and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. After him are Elias Canetti, Erik Erikson, Linus Pauling, Burt Lancaster, Raul Julia, and Dorothy Hodgkin.

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In Romania

Among people born in Romania, Eugène Ionesco ranks 5 out of 844. Before him are Vlad the Impaler (1431), Nicolae Ceaușescu (1918), Leo I the Thracian (401), and Béla Bartók (1881). After him are Michael I of Romania (1921), Stephen Báthory (1533), Alaric I (376), Emil Cioran (1911), John Hunyadi (1407), Tristan Tzara (1896), and Ion Antonescu (1882).

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Among WRITERS In Romania

Among writers born in Romania, Eugène Ionesco ranks 1. After him are Tristan Tzara (1896), Herta Müller (1953), Paul Celan (1920), Elie Wiesel (1928), Dimitrie Cantemir (1673), Jacob L. Moreno (1889), Mihai Eminescu (1850), Panait Istrati (1884), Dositej Obradović (1742), Károly Kerényi (1897), and Ion Luca Caragiale (1852).

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