Jean Anouilh

Jean Anouilh (June 23, 1910- October 3, 1987) was a major French dramatist of the 20th century.

He was born in Bordeaux and had Basque ancestry. He started his career as a jobbing writer in the film industry. In 1931, his first play, L'Hermine, flopped, but he followed it up with a string of others.

Jean Anouilh died in Lausanne, Switzerland.

Works include

L'Hermine (1931)
Mandarine (1933)
Y avait un prisonnier (1935)
Le voyageur sans bagage (1937)
La sauvage (1938)
Le Bal des Voleurs (Thieves' Carnival) (1938)
L�ocadia (1940)
Eurydice (1941)
Le rendez-vous de Senlis (1941)
Antigone (1942)
Rom�o et Jeannette (1946)
L'Invitation au Chateau (Ring Round the Moon) (1947)
Ard�le ou la Marguerite (1948)
La r�p�tition ou l'amour puni (1950)
Colombe (1951)
La valse des tor�adors (1952)
L'Alouette (The Lark) (1952)
Ornifle ou le courant d'air (1955)
Pauvre Bitos ou le d�ner de t�tes (1956)
Becket ou l'honneur de Dieu (1959)
L'hurluberlu ou le r�actionnaire amoureux (1959)
La petite Moli�re (1959)
La Grotte (1961)
Le boulanger, la boulang�re et le petit mitron (1968)
Cher Antoine (1969)
Chers zoizeaux (1976)
Le nombril (1981)