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Fernando Arrabal
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Spanish writer and actor resident in France (born 1932)
Film & TV
Melilla, España
Fernando Arrabal Terán is a Spanish playwright, screenwriter, film director, novelist and poet. Arrabal was born in Melilla, Spain, but settled in France in 1955. Arrabal has directed seven full-length feature films; he has published plays, novels, poetry collections, chapbooks, artist's books, and several essays.
Known for
- La Revuelta — Self - Guest2024
- Arrabal the panic explosion — Self2023
- Le Passeur immobile — Self2021
- L'Artifice et le factice — Self2012
- Arrabal et les Garçons — Self2011
- La Traversée du désir — Self2009
- Arrabal, Panik Cineast — Self2007
- Avida — Le Picador suicidaire2006
- Amours décolorées1998
- The Jodorowsky Constellation — Self1994
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Key facts
- Born
- Fernando Arrabal Terán , ( 1932-08-11 ) August 11, 1932 (age 93) , Melilla , Spain
- Occupation
- Playwright, screenwriter, film director, novelist and poet
- Period
- 1950s–present
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Fernando
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- France
- Place of birth
- Melilla
- Occupation
- painter
- Educated at
- University of Barcelona
- Languages spoken
- French
- Native language
- Spanish
- Participant in
- Documenta 6
- Genre
- dramaturgy
- Official website
- arrabalfernando.com
- Image
- Fernando Arrabal, 2012.JPG
- Residence
- Paris
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- name in native language
- Fernando Arrabal
- date of birth
- 1932-08-11
- member of
- College of 'Pataphysics
- writing language
- French
- social media followers
- 14838
- start of work period
- 1952-00-00
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- Belvedere
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Works in European collections
2 objects attributed to Fernando Arrabal, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
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Encyclopedic overview
Fernando Arrabal Terán (/ærəˈbæl/; Spanish: [araˈβal]; born August 11, 1932) is a Spanish playwright, screenwriter, film director, novelist, and poet. He was born in Melilla and settled in France in 1955. Regarding his nationality, Arrabal describes himself as "desterrado", or "half-expatriate, half-exiled".
Arrabal has directed seven full-length feature films and has published over 100 plays; 14 novels; 800 poetry collections, chapbooks, and artists' books; several essays; and his notorious "Letter to General Franco" during the dictator's lifetime. His complete plays have been published, in multiple languages, in a two-volume edition totaling over two thousand pages. The New York Times' theatre critic Mel Gussow has called Arrabal the last survivor among the "three avatars of modernism".
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Fernando Arrabal” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.