Jean Anouilh (June 23, 1910- October 3, 1987) was a major French dramatist of the 20th century.
He was born in Bordeaux and had Basque ancestry. He started his career as a jobbing writer in the film industry. In 1931, his first play, L'Hermine, flopped, but he followed it up with a string of others.
Jean Anouilh died in Lausanne, Switzerland.
Works include
- L'Hermine (1931)
- Mandarine (1933)
- Y avait un prisonnier (1935)
- Le voyageur sans bagage (1937)
- La sauvage (1938)
- Le Bal des Voleurs (Thieves' Carnival) (1938)
- Léocadia\ (1940)
- Eurydice (1941)
- Le rendez-vous de Senlis (1941)
- Antigone (1942)
- Roméo et Jeannette (1946)
- L'Invitation au Chateau (Ring Round the Moon) (1947)
- Ardèle ou la Marguerite (1948)
- La répétition ou l'amour puni (1950)
- Colombe (1951)
- La valse des toréadors (1952)
- L'Alouette (The Lark) (1952)
- Ornifle ou le courant d'air (1955)
- Pauvre Bitos ou le dîner de têtes (1956)
- Becket ou l'honneur de Dieu (1959)
- L'hurluberlu ou le réactionnaire amoureux (1959)
- La petite Molière (1959)
- La Grotte (1961)
- Le boulanger, la boulangère et le petit mitron (1968)
- Cher Antoine (1969)
- Chers zoizeaux (1976)
- Le nombril (1981)
