Jacques Audiberti

Jacques Séraphin Marie Audiberti (March 25, 1899, Antibes, Fr. – July 10, 1965, Paris) was a French playwright, poet and novelist and exponent of the Theatre of the Absurd.

Audiberti was born in Antibes, France, the son of Louis Audiberti, a master mason, and his wife, Victorine. He began his writing career as a journalist, moving to Paris in 1925 to write for Le Journal and Le Petit Parisien. Later, he wrote more than 20 plays on the theme of conflicting good and evil.

He married Élisabeth-Cécile-Amélie Savane in 1926. They had two daughters, Jacqueline (born 1926) and Marie-Louise (born 1928). He died in Paris in 1965, aged 66, and is interred in the Cimetière de Pantin, Pantin, Ile-de-France Region, France

Works

Plays

• Le mal court (1947)
• L'effet Glapion (1959)
• Les Patients (1961)
• La Fourmi dans le corps (1962)
• Quoat-Quoat
• L'Ampélour
• Les femmes du bœuf

Poetry

• Des Tonnes de semence (1941)
• Toujours (1944)
• Rempart (1953)

Novels

• Le Maître de Milan (1950)
• Marie Dubois (1952)
• Les jardins et les fleuves (1954)
• Infanticide préconisé (1958)

Other

• La Poupée, a film scenario adapted from an earlier novel
• Dimanche m'attend, a diary published in (1965)