Eugène Ionesco Biography

Eugène Ionesco biography

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NAME: Eugène Ionesco
OCCUPATION: Playwright
BIRTH DATE: November 26, 1909
DEATH DATE: March 28, 1994
EDUCATION: University of Bucharest
PLACE OF BIRTH: Slatina, Romania
PLACE OF DEATH: Paris, France
Originally: Eugen Ionescu

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Playwright Eugène Ionesco's first “antiplay,” The Bald Soprano, inspired a revolution in dramatic techniques and helped inaugurate the Theatre of the Absurd.

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Eugène Ionesco's first one-act “antiplay,” The Bald Soprano, inspired a revolution in dramatic techniques and helped inaugurate the Theatre of the Absurd. He followed it with other one-act plays in which illogical events create an atmosphere both comic and grotesque, including The Lesson. His most popular full-length play was Rhinoceros. He was elected to the Académie Française in 1970.