Grand Prix Du Théâtre (Académie Française)
The grand prix du théâtre is a theatre award established in 1980 by the Foundation Le Métais-Larivière and awarded annually to a playwright in recognition for his/her body of work. The Académie française is responsible for selecting the winner. Laureates *1980: Jean Anouilh *1981: Gabriel Arout *1982: Georges Neveux *1983: Marguerite Duras *1984: Jean Vauthier *1985: René de Obaldia *1986: Raymond Devos *1987: Rémo Forlani and Jean-Claude Brisville *1988: Loleh Bellon *1989: Edric Caldicott and François Billetdoux *1990: Jean-Claude Brisville *1991: Jean-Claude Grumberg *1992: non attributed *1993: Fernando Arrabal *1994: non attributed *1995: *1996: non attributed *1997: Didier Van Cauwelaert *1998: Romain Weingarten *1999: non attributed *2000: Yasmina Reza *2001: Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt *2002: Jean-Michel Ribes *2003: Victor Haïm *2004: non attributed *2005: Jean-Marie Besset *2006: Michel Vinaver *2007: Valère Novarina *2008: non attributed *2009: Wajdi Mo ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Playwright
A playwright or dramatist is a person who writes play (theatre), plays, which are a form of drama that primarily consists of dialogue between Character (arts), characters and is intended for Theatre, theatrical performance rather than just Reading (process), reading. Ben Jonson coined the term "playwright" and is the first person in English literature to refer to playwrights as separate from Poet, poets. The earliest playwrights in Western literature with surviving works are the Ancient Greeks. William Shakespeare is amongst the most famous playwrights in literature, both in England and across the world. Etymology The word "play" is from Middle English , from Old English ("play, exercise; sport, game; drama, applause"). The word ''wikt:wwright'' is an archaic English term for a Artisan, craftsperson or builder (as in a wheelwright or Wagon, cartwright). The words combine to indicate a person who has "wrought" words, themes, and other elements into a dramatic form — a play. ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Yasmina Reza
Yasmina Reza (; born 1 May 1959) is a French playwright, actress, novelist and screenwriter best known for her plays ''Art (play), 'Art''' and ''God of Carnage''. Many of her brief satiric plays have reflected on contemporary middle-class issues. The 2011 black comedy film ''Carnage (2011 film), Carnage'', directed by Roman Polanski, was based on Reza's Tony Award for Best Play, Tony Award-winning 2006 play ''God of Carnage''. Life and career Reza's father was a Russian-born Iranian Jews, Persian Jew engineer, businessman, and pianist and her mother was a Jewish Hungarian violinist from Budapest. During the Nazi occupation, her father was deported from Nice to Drancy internment camp. At the beginning of her career, Reza acted in several new plays as well as in plays by Molière and Pierre de Marivaux. In 1987, she wrote ''Conversations after a Burial'', which won the Molière Award, the French equivalent of the Tony Award, for Best Author. The North American production premiered ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Éric Assous
Éric Assous (30 March 1956 – 12 October 2020) was a French director, screenwriter, dialoguist, and dramatist born in Tunis. of the BnF. Career Assous was the author of 80 radio plays for the channel. He wrote numerous plays, as well as scenarios for television (including 3 episodes of the '''' series) and cinema. Assous directed his first feature film, ' in 2001. In 2002, he penned a new comedy entit ...[...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Armand Gatti
Armand Gatti (; 26 January 1924 – 6 April 2017) was a French playwright, poet, journalist, screenwriter, filmmaker and World War II resistance fighter.Banham (1998, 413). His debut film ''Enclosure'' was entered into the 2nd Moscow International Film Festival where he won the Silver Prize for Best Director. Two years later, his film '' El Otro Cristóbal'' was entered into the 1963 Cannes Film Festival. Personal life According to his 1989 biographer, Dorothy Knowles, Gatti was born in 1924 in a shantytown in Monaco to Auguste Rainier an Italian anarchist from Piedmont, who escaped murder in a Chicago slaughterhouse because of his political activities and fled Benito Mussolini's regime and to Letizia Lusona a maid. He died on 6 April 2017. Gatti, like his father, was an anarchist. His works included themes of prisons and escape. Theatrical works *1957 ''Le Poisson noir'' (awarded Fénéon Prize) *1966 '' Chant public devant deux chaises électriques'' *1975 ''Die Hälft ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Denise Chalem
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Philippe Minyana
Philippe is a masculine given name, cognate to Philip, and sometimes also a surname. The name may refer to: * Philippe of Belgium (born 1960), King of the Belgians (2013–present) * Philippe (footballer) (born 2000), Brazilian footballer * Prince Philippe, Count of Flanders, father to Albert I of Belgium * Philippe d'Orléans (other), multiple people * Philippe A. Autexier (1954–1998), French music historian * Philippe Blain, French volleyball player and coach * Philippe Najib Boulos (1902–1979), Lebanese lawyer and politician * Philippe Broussard (born 1963), French journalist * Philippe Coutinho, Brazilian footballer * Philippe Daverio (1949–2020), Italian art historian * Philippe Djian (born 1949), French author * Philippe Dubuisson-Lebon, Canadian football player * Philippe Ginestet (born 1954), French billionaire businessman, founder of GiFi * Philippe Gilbert, Belgian bicycle racer * Philippe Noiret, French actor * Philippe Petit, French performer and tight ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Wajdi Mouawad
Wajdi Mouawad, OC, (; born 1968) is a Lebanese-Canadian writer, actor, and director. He is known in Canadian and French theatre for politically engaged works such as the acclaimed play ''Incendies'' (2003). His works often revolve around family trauma, war, and the betrayal of youth. Since April 2016, Mouawad has been the director of the Théâtre national de la Colline in Paris. Early life and education Born in Lebanon, Mouawad's family left the country when he was eight due to the outbreak of the Lebanese Civil War. He moved to Montreal in 1983 after living in France for five years. He obtained his diploma in () from the National Theatre School of Canada in 1991. Career In 1998, his creation ''Willy Protagoras enfermé dans les toilettes'' (''Willy Protagoras locked up in the toilets'') was voted best Montreal-based production by l'Association québécoise des critiques de théâtre. From 2000 to 2004, he led the Théâtre de Quat'sous in Montreal. In 2004 he direct ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Valère Novarina
Valere or Valère may refer to: People * Valère Amoussou (born 1987), Beninese football player * Valère Billen (born 1952), Belgian football coach *Valère Germain (born 1990), French football player * Valère Gille (born 1867), Belgian poet *Valère Guillet (1796–1881), notary and political figure in colonial Quebec * Valère de Langres or Saint Valère (died 411), archdeacon of Langres * Valère Ollivier (1921–1958), Belgian racing cyclist * Valère Regnault (1545–1623), French Jesuit theologian *Alfred-Valère Roy (1870–1942), Canadian politician * Valère Somé (1950–2017), politician and scholar from Burkina Faso *Valere Van Sweevelt (born 1947), Belgian former racing cyclist * Valère Thiébaud (born 1999), Swiss racing cyclist * Simone Valère (1923–2010), French actress * Valérie Valère (1961–1981), French writer * Gabriel Valère Eteka Yemet, Congolese politician, First Secretary of the National Assembly 2012–7 Places and structures * Valère Basilica, ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Michel Vinaver
Michel Vinaver (born Michel Grinberg; 13 January 1927 – 1 May 2022) was a French writer and dramatist. He was born in Paris to parents who had emigrated from Russia. He was the manager of Gillette. He is the father of actress Anouk Grinberg.''Le Monde'', 19 September 2021 In 2006 he was awarded the Grand prix du théâtre de l'Académie française. Works * ''l'Objecteur'' (c. 1952; awarded the 1952 Fénéon Prize) * ''Les Coréens'' (1956) * ''Iphigénie Hotel'' (1963) * ''A la renverse'' (1980) * ''Jules César'' - translation from Shakespeare (1990) * ''11 septembre 2001/11 September 2001'' (2001) References * 1927 births 2022 deaths 20th-century French dramatists and playwrights French people of Russian descent Writers from Paris Prix Fénéon winners French male dramatists and playwrights 20th-century French male writers Wesleyan University alumni Officers of the Legion of Honour 21st-century French dramatists and playwrights 21st-century French male ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Jean-Marie Besset
Jean-Marie Besset (born 1959) is a French contemporary playwright, translator and theater director. He has been nominated ten times for the Molière award (France's Tony Award) - six times as Best Playwright and four times as Best Translator. He won in 1999 for his adaptation of Michael Frayn's ''Copenhagen''. He won the Best New Play award from the Syndicat National de la Critique Dramatique (Association of French Critics) for ''Ce qui arrive et ce qu'on attend'' in 1993, the New Theater Talent prize from the Société des Auteurs et Compositeurs Dramatiques, SACD (Society of Dramatic Authors and Composers), also in 1993, and the Grand prix du théâtre (Académie française), Grand prix du théâtre de l'Académie française in 2005. He was named Chevalier (1995) and Officier (2002) in the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, and Chevalier in the Ordre national du Mérite (2009) by the French government. Early life and career Born in Carcassonne on November 22, 1959, Besset spent h ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |