Jean Genet (/ ʒ ə ˈ n eɪ /; French: [ʒɑ̃ ʒənɛ]; () 19 December 1910 – () 15 April 1986) was a French novelist, playwright, poet, essayist, and political activist. In his early life he was a vagabond and petty criminal, but he later became a writer and playwright.

Jean Genet was a French criminal and social outcast turned writer who, as a novelist, transformed erotic and often obscene subject matter into a poetic vision of the universe and, as a dramatist, became a leading figure in the avant-garde theatre, especially the Theatre of the Absurd.

Jean Genet, notre père des fleurs, film posthume de Dalila Ennadre, 81 minutes, 2021, La cinémathèque française « Sous l'ombre bienveillante de Jean Genet, enterré au Maroc, ce film est un dialogue entre les vivants et les morts, une invitation à tenir les mondes ensemble, entre sourde révolte humaniste et élégie poétique.

Jean Genet was a French playwright, novelist, essayist, poet, and political activist. Born to a prostitute, Genet started his life as a vagabond and a petty thief. However, his writings in prison revealed his true forté. He was patronized by writers such as Jean Cocteau and Jean-Paul Sartre.

May 18, 2018 · Dubbed "the Black Prince of letters," by his discoverer, Jean Cocteau, the French novelist and playwright Jean Genet (1910-1986) was obsessed with the illusory, perverse, and grotesque elements of human experience. His works present the world of the isolated and despairing outcast.

Jean Genet (December 19, 1910 – April 15, 1986), was a prominent, sometimes infamous, French writer and later political activist. Early in his life, he was a vagabond and petty criminal; later in life, Genet wrote novels, plays, poems, and essays, including Querelle, The Thief's Journal, Our Lady of the Flowers, The Balcony, The Blacks, and ...

Jean Genet (pronounced [ʒɑ̃ ʒəˈnɛ] in French) (19 December 1910 – 15 April 1986), was a French writer and later political activist. Early in his life he was a vagabond ( homeless person) and petty criminal.

Aug 5, 2020 · Écrivain voyou, dramaturge subversif, Jean Genet a incarné durant sa vie la transgression morale, sexuelle et intellectuelle. Lui, qui a passé une partie de sa vie derrière des barreaux, fut pourtant l’un des auteurs les plus libres de son époque.

Apr 16, 1986 · Jean Genet - playwright, novelist, poet and one of the revolutionary artists of the 20th century - died yesterday morning in the Paris hotel where he lived. He was 75 years old.

Genet, Jean 1910–1986PERSONAL: Born December 19, 1910, in Paris, France; died of throat cancer, April 15, 1986 in Paris, France; never knew his parents; was abandoned by his mother, Gabrielle Genet, to the Assistance publique, and was raised by a family of peasants.CAREER: Novelist, dramatist, and poet.AWARDS, HONORS: Village Voice Off ...