WRITER

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 1,154,076 page views. His biography is available in 75 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 69 in 2019). Eugène Ionesco is the 146th most popular writer (up from 150th 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 146 out of 7,302. Before him are Mary Shelley, Petronius, Rudyard Kipling, Robert Louis Stevenson, Walter Scott, and Dr. Seuss. After him are Joan Fuster, Elias Canetti, William Faulkner, Jean Racine, Naguib Mahfouz, and Annie Ernaux.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1909, Eugène Ionesco ranks 3. Before him are Stepan Bandera, and Nicholas Winton. After him are Francis Bacon, Osamu Dazai, Simone Weil, Juliana of the Netherlands, Peter Drucker, Victor Borge, U Thant, Kwame Nkrumah, and Rita Levi-Montalcini. Among people deceased in 1994, Eugène Ionesco ranks 7. Before him are Richard Nixon, Kim Il-sung, Karl Popper, Charles Bukowski, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, and Erich Honecker. After him are Elias Canetti, Erik Erikson, Ayrton Senna, Linus Pauling, Giulietta Masina, and Jeffrey Dahmer.

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In Romania

Among people born in Romania, Eugène Ionesco ranks 5 out of 844. Before him are Vlad the Impaler (1431), Nicolae Ceaușescu (1918), Béla Bartók (1881), and Michael I of Romania (1921). After him are Alaric I (376), Stephen Báthory (1533), John Hunyadi (1407), Emil Cioran (1911), Elena Ceaușescu (1916), Tristan Tzara (1896), and Béla IV of Hungary (1206).

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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), Jacob L. Moreno (1889), Dimitrie Cantemir (1673), Mihai Eminescu (1850), Panait Istrati (1884), Dositej Obradović (1742), Károly Kerényi (1897), and Ion Luca Caragiale (1852).

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