François Billetdoux (7 September 1927 – 26 November 1991) was a French dramatic author and novelist.
Biography
His works describe the world with a fierce humor of a somewhat burlesque style, which sometimes turns into black humor.[1]
Billetdoux was born in and died in Paris. He was President of the Société des gens de lettres in 1972.[2] His daughter, Raphaële Billetdoux is also a writer.
In 1989 he was awarded the Grand Prix du Théâtre de l’Académie Française.
Plays
- À la nuit la nuit (1955)
- Night in the night, Jelm Mountain Publishers, 1980, ISBN 978-0-936204-09-3
- Le comportement des époux Bredburry (1955)
- Tchin-Tchin (1959) translated into English by Willis Hall 1960 retitled Chin-Chin
- Va donc chez Thorpe (1961)
- Comment va le monde, Môssieu ? Il tourne, Môssieu (1964)
- Il faut passer par les nuages (1966)
- Silence, l'arbre remue encore (1967)
- Femmes Parallèles (1970)
- Rintru pa trou tar, hin (1971)
- Les Veuves (1972)
- La Nostalgie, camarade (1974)
- Ai-je dit que je suis bossu (1980)
- Réveille-toi, Philadelphie (1988)
Novels
- L'Animal (1955)
- Royal garden blues (1957)
- Brouillon d'un bourgeois (1961) (translated into English by Ralph Manheim as "A Man and His Master," published by Secker & Warburg in 1963)
References