Biography of French playwright Jean Genet, plus links to all of his works currently in print.

Discovered and championed by the existentialist Jean Paul Sartre, the French writer Jean Genet was an exponent of the theater of the absurd, inventing a highly personal metaphoric imagery...

Choose another writer in this calendar: by name: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z by birthday from the calendar. Credits and feedback Jean Genet (1910-1986) French writer, a convicted felon, who as a dramatist became one of the the leading figures in the avant-garde theater. Genet has described in his works the underworld, male prostitutes, convicts, pimps and social outcasts.