Jean Genet

✶December 19, 1910

†April 14, 1986

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Jean Genet was a French novelist, playwright, poet, essayist, and political activist. In his early life he was a vagabond and petty criminal, but he later became a writer and playwright. His major works include the novels The Thief's Journal and Our Lady of the Flowers and the plays The Balcony, The Maids and The Screens.

French novelist, playwright, poet and political activist (1910-1986)

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