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Bernard-Marie Koltès

1948 - 1989

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Bernard-Marie Koltès (French: [kɔltɛs]; 9 April 1948 – 15 April 1989) was a French playwright and theatre director best known for his plays La Nuit juste avant les Forêts (The Night Just Before the Forests, 1976), Sallinger (1977) and Dans la Solitude des Champs de Coton (In the Solitude of Cotton Fields, 1986). A close friend and collaborator with the avant-garde director Patrice Chéreau, the two created groundbreaking work together at both the La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club in New York City and the Théâtre des Amandiers in Nanterre. At the time of his death, Koltès was considered to be one of the most important young voices in French theatre, and heir apparent to the legacy left by post-war playwrights such as Samuel Beckett, Jean Cocteau and Jean Genet. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Bernard-Marie Koltès has received more than 87,079 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Bernard-Marie Koltès is the 3,308th most popular writer (up from 3,662nd in 2019), the 3,427th most popular biography from France (up from 3,542nd in 2019) and the 432nd most popular French Writer.

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Notable Works

La famille des orties
1983
Nickel stuff
2009
La fuite à cheval
1984
Lettres
2009
Combat de nègre et de chiens
1983
Des voix sourdes
2008

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Bernard-Marie Koltès ranks 3,308 out of 7,302. Before him are Jean Rotrou, Cecil Bødker, Angel Wagenstein, Abdullah Goran, Aleksandr Tvardovsky, and Salvador Espriu. After him are Peter Mayle, Anna Sewell, Bernhard Grzimek, Nossis, Alexander Dukhnovych, and Enrique Vila-Matas.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1948, Bernard-Marie Koltès ranks 284. Before him are Magdaléna Vášáryová, Snowy White, Mizengo Pinda, Ludwig Scotty, Hiroshi Sugimoto, and Tomáš Halík. After him are Enrique Vila-Matas, Sergey Lebedev, Phylicia Rashad, Ray Clemence, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, and Luciano Re Cecconi. Among people deceased in 1989, Bernard-Marie Koltès ranks 133. Before him are Abdul Rahman Ghassemlou, Halina Konopacka, Nils Axelsson, George C. Homans, Imre Németh, and Alex Thépot. After him are Diana Vreeland, Sourou-Migan Apithy, Paul Shenar, Arsenie Boca, Uichiro Hatta, and Choekyi Gyaltsen, 10th Panchen Lama.

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In France

Among people born in France, Bernard-Marie Koltès ranks 3,427 out of 6,770. Before him are Yvon Douis (1935), Gunnor (950), E. D. Morel (1873), Jean Rotrou (1609), Jacques-Joseph Champollion-Figeac (1778), and Alex Thépot (1906). After him are Marguerite Durand (1864), Camille Guérin (1872), Marcel Granet (1884), Jacques-Émile Blanche (1861), Régine Pernoud (1909), and Frédéric Mitterrand (1947).

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Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Bernard-Marie Koltès ranks 432. Before him are Eugène Burnouf (1801), Bernard Maris (1946), Émile Faguet (1847), Victor Segalen (1878), Charles Pinot Duclos (1704), and Jean Rotrou (1609). After him are Isaac de Benserade (1613), Henry Becque (1837), Jean-Claude Izzo (1945), Rutebeuf (1300), Daniel Guérin (1904), and Robert de Clari (1170).

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