François Billetdoux

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