Background
ARRABAL, Fernando was born on August 11, 1932 in Melilla, Morocco.
ARRABAL, Fernando was born on August 11, 1932 in Melilla, Morocco.
directed and written: Viva la Muerte, J’irai comme un cheval fou, L’arbre de Guernica, L'odyssee de la Pacific, Le cimetiere des voitures. Founder “Panique” movt. with Topor, Jodorowsky, etc. Grand Prix du Theatre 1967, Grand Prix Humour Noir 1968, Premio Nadal (Spain) 1983, World’s Theater.
Author: (novels) Baal Babylone, 1959, The Burial of Sardine, 1982, Fêtes et Rites de la Confusion, 1965, The Tower Struck by Lightning (Prix Nadal 1983), The compass Stone, The Red Madonna, La Fille de King Kong, L'Extravagante Croisade d'un castrat Amoureux, El Mono, Ceremonia por un teniente abandonado, Le Funambule De Dieu, 1998, Porté Disparu, 2000, Levitación, 2000, Sex and Boost Behind Bars, 2000. (poetry) 411 bibliophile books, La Pierre de la folie, 1963, 100 Sonnets, 1966, Liberté Couleur De Femme, 1993, Arrabalesques, 1994, Humbles Paradis 1986. Numerous plays include: the Architect and the Emperor of Assyria, And They Put Handcuffs on the Flowers, Garden of Delights, La Tour De Babel, Fando and Lis, The Automobile Graveyard, Guernica, The Grand Ceremonial.
(essays) The Panic, the New York of Arrabal, Letter to General Franco, Fischer, 1973, Echecs et Mythe, Letters to Fidel Castro, 1984, Chroniques d'Echecs de l'Express, 1986, Greco, 1991, Goya-Dalí, 1992, Genios y Figuras, 1993, La dudosa luz del Día, 1994, Un esclave nommé Cervantès, 1996. Writer and director films: Viva la Muerte, J'irai comme un cheval fou, L'arbre de Guernica, Le Cimetiére des Voitures, Odyssey of the Pacific, Adieu Babylone, Jorge Luis Borges.
Founder Panique movement with Topor and Jodorowsky, political prisoner, Spain, 1967.
Married Luce Moreau; children: Samuel, Lélia.