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Eugène Ionesco

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Eugène Ionesco

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Also known as Ionesco, Eugen Ionesco, Eugene Ionesco

Romanian-French playwright (1909–1994)

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Eugène Ionesco was a writer whose work period spanned from 1932 to 1994. He was recognized in the Académie française collection and the American Academy Arts Sciences collection. His works have been referenced by 802 other encyclopedia articles.

He was born in 1909 and died on 28 March 1994. He had one child. His quotes include, "Oh words, what crimes are committed in your name!" and "We are all Victims of Duty."

Synthesized by Vinony from 24 facts across 9 sources: Wikidata, Last.fm, Firecrawl, Crossref, Wikiquote, Europeana Sparql, Open Library, Vinony collections, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

Person · Open Library

Born
1912
Died
28 March 1994
Works
376

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Music · MusicBrainz

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
40
Total plays
168

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 354 diseases and injuries for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017

    · 2018 · cited 10,995x

  2. Global, regional, and national age-sex-specific mortality for 282 causes of death in 195 countries and territories, 1980–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017

    · 2018 · cited 6,186x

  3. Worldwide trends in body-mass index, underweight, overweight, and obesity from 1975 to 2016: a pooled analysis of 2416 population-based measurement studies in 128·9 million children, adolescents, and adults

    · 2017 · cited 5,579x

  4. Worldwide trends in hypertension prevalence and progress in treatment and control from 1990 to 2019: a pooled analysis of 1201 population-representative studies with 104 million participants

    · 2021 · cited 3,155x

  5. 2017 ESC focused update on dual antiplatelet therapy in coronary artery disease developed in collaboration with EACTS

    · 2017 · cited 2,392x

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Quotes

  • “That's not it. That's not it at all. You always have a tendency to add. But one must be able to subtract too. It's not enough to integrate, you must also disintegrate. That's the way life is. That's philosophy. That's science. That's progress, civilization.”
  • “There are now many invisible people on stage.”
  • “All the plays that have ever been written, from ancient Greece to the present day, have never really been anything but thrillers... Drama's always been realistic and there's always been a detective about... Every play's an investigation brought to a successful conclusion.”
  • “We are all Victims of Duty.”
  • “I didn't mean you were stupid. It's just that you're not logical, which isn't the same thing at all.”
  • “Oh words, what crimes are committed in your name!”

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Described at

Eugène IONESCO | Académie française

Né à Slatina (Roumanie), le 13 novembre 1909. Né d'un père roumain et d'une mère française, Eugène Ionesco passa sa petite enfance en France. Il y écrivit à onze ans ses premiers poèmes, un scénario de comédie et un « drame...

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Works in European collections

2 objects attributed to Eugène Ionesco, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana

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Encyclopedic overview

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Eugène Ionesco (/jəˈnɛskoʊ/; French: [øʒɛn jɔnɛsko]; born Eugen Ionescu, Romanian: [e.uˈdʒen joˈnesku] ; 26 November 1909 – 28 March 1994) was a Romanian-French playwright who wrote mostly in French, and was one of the foremost figures of the French avant-garde theatre in the 20th century. Ionesco instigated a revolution in ideas and techniques of drama, beginning with his "anti play", The Bald Soprano, which contributed to the beginnings of what is known as the Theatre of the Absurd. He wrote a number of plays that, following the ideas of the philosopher Albert Camus, explore concepts of absurdism and surrealism. He was made a member of the Académie française in 1970, and was awarded the 1970 Austrian State Prize for European Literature, and the 1973 Jerusalem Prize.

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