Eugène Ionesco

Eugène Ionesco, born Eugen Dimitri Ionescu on November 26, 1909 in Slatina (Romania) and died on March 28, 1994 in Paris 14th (France), is a Romanian-French playwright and writer in French. He devoted himself above all to the theater of the absurd. His best-known works are La Cantatrice chauve (1950), Les Chaises (1952), Rhinocéros (1959) and Le roi se meurt (1962).