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Eugène Ionesco

1909 - 1994

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Eugène Ionesco (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, which includes a number of plays that, following the ideas of the philosopher Albert Camus, explore concepts of absurdism and surrealism. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Eugène Ionesco has received more than 1,089,872 page views. His biography is available in 69 different languages on Wikipedia. Eugène Ionesco is the 150th most popular writer (down from 140th in 2019), the 5th most popular biography from Romania and the most popular Romanian Writer.

Eugène Ionesco is most famous for his absurdist play, "The Bald Soprano."

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Eugène Ionesco ranks 150 out of 5,755. Before him are Guillaume Apollinaire, Emily Brontë, Murasaki Shikibu, Pindar, Elias Canetti, and Ivo Andrić. After him are Heinrich Böll, Joseph Conrad, André Breton, Dr. Seuss, William Faulkner, and Pliny the Younger.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1909, Eugène Ionesco ranks 2. Before him is Stepan Bandera. After him are Osamu Dazai, Juliana of the Netherlands, Peter Drucker, Simone Weil, Andrei Gromyko, Mohammed Daoud Khan, Francis Bacon, Victor Borge, Nicholas Winton, and U Thant. Among people deceased in 1994, Eugène Ionesco ranks 9. Before him are Richard Nixon, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Charles Bukowski, Erik Erikson, Erich Honecker, and Elias Canetti. After him are Linus Pauling, Ayrton Senna, Burt Lancaster, Andrei Chikatilo, Giulietta Masina, and Kurt Cobain.

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In Romania

Among people born in Romania, Eugène Ionesco ranks 5 out of 665. Before him are Vlad the Impaler (1431), Nicolae Ceaușescu (1918), Béla Bartók (1881), and Alaric I (376). After him are John Hunyadi (1407), Stephen Báthory (1533), Emil Cioran (1911), Tristan Tzara (1896), Elena Ceaușescu (1916), Michael I of Romania (1921), and Ion Antonescu (1882).

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Among WRITERS In Romania

Among writers born in Romania, Eugène Ionesco ranks 1. After him are Tristan Tzara (1896), Paul Celan (1920), Herta Müller (1953), Elie Wiesel (1928), Mihai Eminescu (1850), Jacob L. Moreno (1889), Dimitrie Cantemir (1673), Panait Istrati (1884), Dositej Obradović (1742), Ion Creangă (1837), and Károly Kerényi (1897).

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