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Eugène Ionesco

1909 - 1994

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His biography is available in 78 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 75 in 2024). Eugène Ionesco is the 158th most popular writer (down from 146th in 2024), 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 158 out of 7,302Before him are Carlo Collodi, Plautus, Yasunari Kawabata, H. P. Lovecraft, Mary Shelley, and Samuel Beckett. After him are Ivan Turgenev, Henryk Sienkiewicz, Tomas Tranströmer, Guillaume Apollinaire, Jean Racine, and Elias Canetti.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1909, Eugène Ionesco ranks 2Before him is Stepan Bandera. After him are Nicholas Winton, Juliana of the Netherlands, Simone Weil, Osamu Dazai, James Mason, Edward Tatum, Mohammed Daoud Khan, U Thant, Francis Bacon, and Andrei Gromyko. Among people deceased in 1994, Eugène Ionesco ranks 8Before him are Ayrton Senna, Richard Nixon, Karl Popper, Charles Bukowski, Erich Honecker, and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. After him are Elias Canetti, Erik Erikson, Linus Pauling, Burt Lancaster, Raul Julia, and Dorothy Hodgkin.

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In Romania

Among people born in Romania, Eugène Ionesco ranks 5 out of NaNBefore him are Vlad the Impaler (1431), Nicolae Ceaușescu (1918), Leo I the Thracian (401), and Béla Bartók (1881). After him are Michael I of Romania (1921), Stephen Báthory (1533), Alaric I (376), Emil Cioran (1911), John Hunyadi (1407), Tristan Tzara (1896), and Ion Antonescu (1882).

Among Writers In Romania

Among writers born in Romania, Eugène Ionesco ranks 1After him are Tristan Tzara (1896), Herta Müller (1953), Paul Celan (1920), Elie Wiesel (1928), Dimitrie Cantemir (1673), Jacob L. Moreno (1889), Mihai Eminescu (1850), Panait Istrati (1884), Dositej Obradović (1742), Károly Kerényi (1897), and Ion Luca Caragiale (1852).

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