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Fernando Arrabal
Fernando Arrabal Terán 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".
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Born 11 August 1932 · Q309768
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2026· 1 entry
2025· 1 entry
Awarded Collar of the Order of Isabella the Catholic (2025).
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2023· 1 entry
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2019· 1 entry
Awarded Grand Cross of the Civil Order of Alfonso X the Wise (2019).
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2015· 1 entry
Some of Arrabal's poems were adapted with music by the band Seagoat Bones on their etude album Phonèmes
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2009· 1 entry
“Faustbal is a woman who, in the third millennium, is the reincarnation of Alfred Jarry”
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2007· 1 entry
Was awarded a doctorate of letters Honoris Causa by the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in Greece
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2005· 5 entries
Was named to France's Légion d'honneur
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Awarded Knight of the Legion of Honour (2005).
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Awarded Annual award ACFK presented by Association of Czech Film Clubs (2005).
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Due to the solicitation of several institutions and individuals
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A 3-disc box set of Arrabal's films was released by Cult Epics with Viva la muerte, I Will Walk Like a Crazy Horse, and The Tree of Guernica
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2003· 1 entry
Awarded National Dramatic Literature Award for Carta de amor ("como un suplicio chino"): monólogo inédito para una actriz ; --Y pusieron esposas a las flores (2003).
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2001· 2 entries
Awarded National Theater Prize (2001).
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Was nominated for the Premio Cervantes by Nobel Prize in Literature winner Camilo José Cela and José Hierro
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1996· 1 entry
Awarded Grand prix du livre d'histoire de la Société des gens de lettres (1996).
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1994· 2 entries
Awarded Espasa Essay Prize (1994).
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Chamber Made produced the opera of Arrabal's The Two Executioners, with libretto by Douglas Horton and music by David Chesworth
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1993· 1 entry
Awarded Grand prix du théâtre (1993).
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1987· 1 entry
Won Gold Medal of Merit in the Fine Arts (1987).
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1982· 1 entry
Awarded Premio Nadal (1982).
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1977· 1 entry
Due to a conflict with his play The Architect and the Emperor of Assyria being performed in Barcelona with artists reputed to have Communist Party ties
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1976· 1 entry
Appeared in Rosa von Praunheim's New York film Underground and Friends
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1972· 4 entries
“Skoro tylko zabieram się do pisania, kałamarz napełnia się wierszami,pióro marzeniami, a biały papier myślami.”
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“Mam w sobie bańkę powietrza. Wyczuwam ją bardzo wyraźnie. Kiedyjestem smutny, staje się cięższa, a czasem gdy płaczę, można bypowiedzieć, że to kropla rtęci.”
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“Niekiedy patrząc na drzewo widzę szyję i muszkę zawiązaną wokół pnia.Jeśli się zbliżę, będę mógł otworzyć korę jak drzwi, a we wnętrzu odkryjęregularny pusty czworościan, a w czworościanie kulę, a w kuli wyraz WIEDZA.”
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“Człowiek stoi na nogach, odrywa się od ziemi, porusza i zmierza dokąd chce”
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1962· 2 entries
Arrabal co-founded the Panic Movement with Alejandro Jodorowsky and Roland Topor, inspired by the god Pan
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His first painting was chosen for reproduction in the art publication La Brèche: Action Surréaliste Revue by its founding editor, André Breton
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1955· 1 entry
Was awarded a three-month scholarship to study in Paris, during which time he lived at the Colegio de España at the Cité Universitaire
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1954· 1 entry
Arrabal hitchhiked to Paris to attend a performance of Bertolt Brecht's Mother Courage and Her Children given by the touring Berliner Ensemble
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1951· 1 entry
Arrabal began working in the paper industry at La Papelera Española
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1948· 1 entry
In homage to French author Alfred Jarry, has named previous Transcendent Satrapes including: Camilo José Cela, René Clair, Jean Dubuffet, Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst, M
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1947· 1 entry
When his mother ordered him to attend preparatory classes for entrance to the Academia General Militar, Arrabal protested by playing hooky
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1941· 2 entries
Escaped from the hospital in his pajamas, despite three feet of snow covering the countryside
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Was sent to the Burgos Hospital due to apparent mental disorder
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1936· 2 entries
When insurrections within the military were staged against the constitutional government of the Second Spanish Republic, launching the Spanish Civil War, Arrabal's father remained faithful to the Republic and was sentenc
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Arrabal's mother returned to Ciudad Rodrigo with her young son, Fernando, and found a job at Burgos, then-capitol of the Nationalists and headquarters of General Franco's government
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1932· 1 entry
Born 1932-08-11.
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