French writer of novels and dramas for the theater of the absurd (1910-1986)
1But Jean Genet was his mentor - "moral more than literary".
2This work is unashamedly in-your-face, faggy, gross-out fun in the tradition of John Waters meets Jean Genet.
3He caused a sensation the world over with his production Flowers, based on the novel by Jean Genet.
4In the decades since, he's had creative run-ins with the likes of James Baldwin, John Lennon and Jean Genet.
5His work so far has included a production of Jean Genet's play "The Maids" at the Sydney Art Theatre.
6Cigarettes and homosexual longing have been closely related ever since Jean Genet made his short film Un Chant d'Amour in 1950.
7On the other hand, there are people who are both criminals and talented creative artists-likethe playwright Jean Genet, for example.
8There he met Monique Lange, who was to become his wife, and Jean Genet, who became a key influence on Goytisolo's development.
9Facebook Twitter Pinterest Jean Genet (middle) sitting next to William S Burroughs on a visit the US in the 1960s.
10Fascinated by the Papin murders, Jean Genet crafted his play with the passion and the tragedy of his own life and relationships.
11On the back of the book, there's an impressive list of other Faber playwrights: TS Eliot, Jean Genet, John Osborne and Tom Stoppard.
12I don't know whether Pol Pot shared vin et fromage with the nauseous one, or if he preferred the more violent thinker, M. Jean Genet.
13The play that got Jones noticed, in 1961, was Jean Genet's piece The Blacks, in which black actors perform in white-face to subvert colonial racism.
14Jean Genet was arrested for the first time -for theft -at the age of ten.
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