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Fernando Arrabal

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Also known as Fernando Arrabal Terán

Spanish writer and actor resident in France (born 1932)

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Fernando Arrabal was a Spanish author and artist whose professional career began in 1952. His literary output includes eighty-three works, with notable titles such as *Rêves d'insects*, *Professeur Taranne*, *Der Architekt und der Kaiser von Assyrien*, *Fischer, le roi maudit*, and *Der tausendjährige Krieg. Bella CIAO*. His creative themes have been associated with surrealism, theater, and patafisica.

Arrabal’s work has been documented across various cultural databases, including Open Library and Europeana. He is referenced by 183 other encyclopedia articles. An official website exists for his public presence, and he maintains a social media following of 15,306.

Synthesized by Vinony from 17 facts across 7 sources: Wikidata, Last.fm, Crossref, MusicBrainz, Open Library, Europeana Sparql, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

Person · Open Library

Works
83

Top works

  • Rêves d'insects
  • Professeur Taranne
  • Der Architekt und der Kaiser von Assyrien
  • Fischer, le roi maudit
  • Der tausendjährige Krieg. Bella CIAO

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Group

via MusicBrainz · CC0

Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
61
Total plays
1,524

Tags

spanishfrancesurrealismteatropatafisica

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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

via Wikipedia infobox

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.