Matei Vișniec

Matei Visniec

Matei Visniec (2012)
Native name Matei Vișniec
Born (1956-01-29) 29 January 1956
Occupation playwright, poet, novelist
Language Romanian, French
Nationality Romanian
Ethnicity Romanian
Citizenship French[1]
Education Faculty of History and Philosophy
Alma mater Bucharest University
Period 1975- 1980
Genre postmodernism[2]
Notable works The Body of a Woman as a Battlefield in the Bosnian War
The Story of the Panda Bears told by a Saxophonist who has a Girlfriend in Frankfurt
Notable awards

2007, 2002 and 1999 - Drama Award of the Romanian Writers' Union
1998 - Drama Award of the Romanian Academy
2009, 2008, 1996 and 1995 - Press Avignon-Off Award

1991 - Award of the Romanian Theatrical Society for "Clown Wanted", the best play of the year
European Award of The French Society of Dramatic Authors and Composers (SACD)
Years active 1977-
Spouse Andra[2]
Children one daughter[2]
Website
visniec.com/home.html

Matei Vişniec Romanian pronunciation: [maˈtej viʃˈnjek]; born January 29, 1956 in Rădăuţi) is a Romanian-French playwright, poet and journalist living in Paris.

He is internationally known especially for his writings in the French language.

He graduated in 1980 from the History and Philosophy Faculty of the University of Bucharest.[2] Between 1977 and 1987 he wrote 8 plays in two or three acts, about twenty short plays, and some screenplays, but all were turned down by the censors.[2] In 1987 he was invited to France by a literary foundation, and he asked for political asylum. Between August 1988 and October 1989 he lived in London, where he worked for the Romanian section of the BBC.[2]

After settling down in France, he has been writing mostly in French, and has received French citizenship. After the fall of communism in Romania, in 1989, Matei Visniec became one of the most performed playwrights in the country, with more than 30 plays put on in Bucharest and other towns. In 1996 the National Theatre of Timisoara organized a Matei Visniec Festival with 12 companies presenting his plays. His international audience as a playwright started in 1992, with the play Horses at the Windows performed in France, and Old Clown Wanted at the "Bonner Biennale".

Since then, Visniec has had more than 20 plays performed in France (Théâtre Guichet Montparnasse, Studio des Champs-Elysées, Théâtre du Rond-Point de Champs Elysées - Paris, Théâtre de l'Utopie - La Rochelle, Compagnie Pli Urgent - Lyon, Théâtre Le Jodel - Avignon, Théâtre de Lenche and Théâtre de la Minoterie - Marseille, Compagnie Nice-Théâtre Vivant - Nice, etc.). Old Clown Wanted has been performed in: France, Germany, United States, Denmark, Austria, Poland, Finland, Italy, Turkey, Brazil, Romania, Moldavia, and Georgia.[3]

He is working as a journalist at Radio France Internationale.[1]

Writings

Sasea

Poetry

Prose

Plays in Romanian

Plays in French

Style

One literary critic considers his plays to be "bizarre, unclassifiable".[4]

References

  1. 1 2 "Matei Vişniec, Doctor Honoris Causa al Universităţii "Ovidius" Constanţa". Retrieved October 24, 2014.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Stefanescu, Alex. (2003). "Matei Vişniec". Romania literara. Retrieved October 24, 2014.
  3. "MATEI VISNIEC". Retrieved October 24, 2014.
  4. Stefanescu, Alex. (2003). "Matei Vişniec". Romania literara. Retrieved October 24, 2014.
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