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Matei Vișniec ; born 29 January 1956 in
Rădăuți
Rădăuți (; german: Radautz; hu, Radóc; pl, Radowce; uk, Радівці, ''Radivtsi''; yi, ראַדעװיץ ''Radevits''; tr, Radoviçe) is a town in Suceava County, north-eastern Romania. It is situated in the historical region of Buko ...
) is a Romanian-French playwright, poet and journalist living in
Paris
Paris () is the Capital city, capital and List of communes in France with over 20,000 inhabitants, most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in an area of more than 105 km² (41 sq mi), ma ...
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He is internationally known especially for his writings in the French language.
He graduated in 1980 from the History and Philosophy Faculty of the
University of Bucharest
The University of Bucharest ( ro, Universitatea din București), commonly known after its abbreviation UB in Romania, is a public university founded in its current form on by a decree of Prince Alexandru Ioan Cuza to convert the former Princel ...
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Between 1977 and 1987 he wrote 8 plays in two or three acts, about twenty short plays, and some screenplays, but all were turned down by the censors.
In 1987 he was invited to France by a literary foundation, and he asked for political asylum. Between August 1988 and October 1989 he lived in
London
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, where he worked for the Romanian section of the
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After settling down in France, he has been writing mostly in French, and has received French citizenship. After the
fall of communism in Romania, in 1989, Matei Vișniec became one of the most performed playwrights in the country, with more than 30 plays put on in
Bucharest
Bucharest ( , ; ro, București ) is the capital and largest city of Romania, as well as its cultural, industrial, and financial centre. It is located in the southeast of the country, on the banks of the Dâmbovița River, less than north of ...
and other towns. In 1996 the National Theatre of Timișoara organized a Matei Vișniec Festival with 12 companies presenting his plays. His international audience as a playwright started in 1992, with the play Horses at the Windows performed in France, and Old Clown Wanted at the "Bonner Biennale".
Since then, Vișniec has had more than 20 plays performed in France (Théâtre Guichet Montparnasse,
Studio des Champs-Elysées,
Théâtre du Rond-Point
The Théâtre du Rond-Point is a theatre in Paris, located at 2bis avenue Franklin-D.-Roosevelt, 8th arrondissement.
History
The theatre began with an 1838 project of architect Jacques Ignace Hittorff for a rotunda in the Champs Elysees. Inau ...
des Champs Elysées – Paris, Théâtre de l'Utopie –
La Rochelle
La Rochelle (, , ; Poitevin-Saintongeais: ''La Rochéle''; oc, La Rochèla ) is a city on the west coast of France and a seaport on the Bay of Biscay, a part of the Atlantic Ocean. It is the capital of the Charente-Maritime department. Wi ...
, Compagnie Pli Urgent –
Lyon
Lyon,, ; Occitan language, Occitan: ''Lion'', hist. ''Lionés'' also spelled in English as Lyons, is the List of communes in France with over 20,000 inhabitants, third-largest city and Urban area (France), second-largest metropolitan area of F ...
, Théâtre Le Jodel –
Avignon, Théâtre de Lenche and Théâtre de la Minoterie –
Marseille
Marseille ( , , ; also spelled in English as Marseilles; oc, Marselha ) is the prefecture of the French department of Bouches-du-Rhône and capital of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region. Situated in the camargue region of southern Fra ...
, Compagnie Nice-Théâtre Vivant –
Nice
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, etc.). Old Clown Wanted has been performed in: France, Germany, United States, Denmark, Austria, Poland, Finland, Italy, Turkey, Brazil, Romania, Azerbaijan, Moldavia, and Georgia.
He is working as a journalist at
Radio France Internationale
Radio France Internationale, usually referred to as RFI, is the state-owned international radio broadcaster of France. With 37.2 million listeners in 2014, it is one of the most-listened-to international radio stations in the world, along with ...
.
Writings
Sasea
Poetry
*''La noapte va ninge'' ("Tonight It Will Snow"), Bucharest, Alb., 1980
*''Orașul cu un singur locuitor'' ("The Town With a Single Inhabitant"), Bucharest, Alb., 1982
*''Înțeleptul la ora de ceai'' ("The Sage at the Tea Hour"), Bucharest,
Cartea Românească
Cartea Românească ("The Romanian Book") is a publishing house in Bucharest, Romania, founded in 1919. Disestablished by the Communist Romania, communist regime in 1948, it was restored under later communism, in 1970, when it functioned as the off ...
, 1984.
*''Poeme ulterioare'' ("Subsequent Poems") (1987–1999), Bucharest, Cartea Românească, 2000
Prose
*''Cafeneaua Pas-Parol'', novel, Bucharest, FCR, 1992
Plays in Romanian
*''Ţara lui Gufi'' ("Gufi's Land", three-act play), Bucharest., IC, 1991
*''Angajare de clovn'' ("Hiring a Clown", published in the same volume as ''Evangheliștii'' by
Alina Mungiu), foreword by Marian Popescu, Bucharest., Ed. Unitext, 1993
*''Teatru'', vol. I-II, foreword by Valentin Silvestru, Bucharest, Cartea Românească, 1996 1991–1995)
Plays in French
*''Personne n’a le droit de traîner sans armes sur un champ de bataille'', 1991
*''Le marchand de temps'', 1992
*''Les partitions frauduleuses'', 1993
*''Hécatombéon'', 1993
*''Théâtre décomposé ou L’homme-poubelle'', 1993
*''La grammaire du silence'', 1994
*''Trois nuits avec Madox'', 1994
*''L’histoire des ours pandas racontée par un saxophoniste qui a une petite amie à Francfort'', 1994
*''Cils interdits pendant la nuit'', 1995
*''Paparazzi ou la chronique d’un lever de soleil avorté'', 1995
*''Comment pourais-je être un oiseau?'', 1996
*''Du sexe de la femme comme champ de bataille dans la guerre en Bosnie'', 1996
Style
Literary critic considers his plays to be "bizarre, unclassifiable".
References
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1956 births
20th-century French dramatists and playwrights
21st-century French dramatists and playwrights
21st-century French non-fiction writers
20th-century Romanian poets
21st-century Romanian poets
Living people
People from Rădăuți
Romanian defectors
Romanian dramatists and playwrights
Romanian expatriates in France
Romanian male poets
Romanian writers in French
French people of Romanian descent
University of Bucharest alumni