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Fernando Arrabal
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Spanish writer and actor resident in France (born 1932)
OverviewAI-generated
Fernando Arrabal was a Spanish author and artist whose professional career began in 1952. His literary output includes eighty-three works, with notable titles such as *Rêves d'insects*, *Professeur Taranne*, *Der Architekt und der Kaiser von Assyrien*, *Fischer, le roi maudit*, and *Der tausendjährige Krieg. Bella CIAO*. His creative themes have been associated with surrealism, theater, and patafisica.
Arrabal’s work has been documented across various cultural databases, including Open Library and Europeana. He is referenced by 183 other encyclopedia articles. An official website exists for his public presence, and he maintains a social media following of 15,306.
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Key facts
- Born
- Fernando Arrabal Terán , ( 1932-08-11 ) August 11, 1932 (age 93) , Melilla , Spain
- Occupation
- Playwright, screenwriter, film director, novelist and poet
- Period
- 1950s–present
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Fernando
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- France
- Place of birth
- Melilla
- Occupation
- painter
- Educated at
- University of Barcelona
- Languages spoken
- French
- Native language
- Spanish
- Participant in
- Documenta 6
- Genre
- dramaturgy
- Official website
- arrabalfernando.com
- Image
- Fernando Arrabal, 2012.JPG
- Residence
- Paris
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- birth name
- Fernando Arrabal Terán
- Commons Creator page
- Fernando Arrabal
- Commons category
- Fernando Arrabal
- name in native language
- Fernando Arrabal
- date of birth
- 1932-08-11
- member of
- College of 'Pataphysics
- writing language
- French
- social media followers
- 14838
- start of work period
- 1952-00-00
- P12674
- Belvedere
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Works in European collections
2 objects attributed to Fernando Arrabal, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
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Encyclopedic overview
Fernando Arrabal Terán (/ærəˈbæl/; Spanish: [araˈβal]; born August 11, 1932) is a Spanish playwright, screenwriter, film director, novelist, and poet. He was born in Melilla and settled in France in 1955. Regarding his nationality, Arrabal describes himself as "desterrado", or "half-expatriate, half-exiled".
Arrabal has directed seven full-length feature films and has published over 100 plays; 14 novels; 800 poetry collections, chapbooks, and artists' books; several essays; and his notorious "Letter to General Franco" during the dictator's lifetime. His complete plays have been published, in multiple languages, in a two-volume edition totaling over two thousand pages. The New York Times' theatre critic Mel Gussow has called Arrabal the last survivor among the "three avatars of modernism".
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Fernando Arrabal” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.