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ARRABAL, FERNANDO, writer ; b. Melilla, Spain, Aug. 11, 1932 ; m. Luce Moreau ; children Samuel, Lélia. Author : (novels) : Baal Babylone, 1959, The Burial of Sardine, 1962, Fêtes et Rites de la Confusion, 1965, The Tower Struck by Lightning (Prix Nadal 1983), The Compass Stone, The Red Madonna, El Mono ; Ceremonia por un teniente abandonado, 1998, Le Funambule de Dieu 1999; (poetry) : Pierre de la folie, 1963, 100 Sonnets, 1966, Liberte Couleur De Femme, 1993, Arrabalesques, 1994, Humbles Paradis, 1986, Prières jaculatoires (1999); numerous plays include : The Architect and the Emperors of Assyria, And They Put Handcuffs on the Flowers, Garden of Delights, Fando and Lis, The Automobile Graveyard, Guernica, The Grand Ceremonial, Love letter (Like a chinese torture), 1999 ; (essays) : The Panic, The New-York of Arrabal, Letter to General Franco, Fischer, 1973, Echecs et Mythe, Letter to Fidel Castro, 1984, Chroniques d'Echecs de l'Express, 1986, Greco, 1991, Goya-Dali, 1992, Genios y Figuras, 1993, La dudosa luz del Dia, 1994, Un esclave nommé Cervantès, 1996 ; writer and dir. films : Viva la Muerte, J'irai comme un cheval fou, L'arbre de Guernica, le Cimetière des Voitures, Odyssey of the Pacific, Adieu Babylone ! Jorge-Luis Borges (Una vita di poesia),1999. Recipient award Ford Found. 1959, Grand Prix du Théâtre, 1967, Grand Prix Humour Noir, 1968, Lugne Poë, 1965, Obie award, 1976, Superdotado, 1942, Worlds Theater prize, 1984, Medalla de Oro de Bellas Artes, Spain, 1989, Officier Ordres des Arts et des Lettres, Paris. 1994, Prix de Théâtre de l'Académie Française, 1993, Premio de Ensayo Espasa, 1994, Premio Internacional de Novela Nabokov, 1994, Grand Prix de la Société des Gens de Lettres, 1996, Grand Prix de la Ville d'Antibes, 1997, medal Ctr. French Civilization and Culture, N.Y.U., 1997, Prix de la Francophonie, 1998, Premio Mariano de Cavia, 1998, Premio Europa di Poesia Alessandro Manzoni 1999 and others. Founder Panique movement with Topor, and Jodorowsky ; polit. prisoner, Spain, 1967.