María Irene Fornés (1930–2018)
Forfatter af Fefu and Her Friends
Om forfatteren
María Irene Fornés was born in Havana, Cuba on May 14, 1930. She moved with her mother and a sister to New York City in 1945. Before becoming a playwright, she was a painter who studied for a time with the Abstract Expressionist Hans Hofmann. Fornés taught playwriting at New York University, the vis mere Padua Hills Playwrights Festival in California, and the Intar Hispanic American Arts Center in Manhattan. In 1965, collaborating with the composer Al Carmines, she wrote the book and lyrics for Promenade. Her other plays included Fefu and Her Friends, Mud, The Danube, The Conduct of Life, Abingdon Square, Enter the Night, and Letters from Cuba. Her plays received eight Obie awards and she received an Obie for lifetime achievement in 1982. She died on October 30, 2018 at the age of 88. (Bowker Author Biography) vis mindre
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Værker af María Irene Fornés
The Danube 3 eksemplarer
Springtime 2 eksemplarer
Theater - Winter, 1968 1 eksemplar
PAJ: Winter, 1978 - Volume II, Number 3 1 eksemplar
Mud 1 eksemplar
Promenade 1 eksemplar
The Danube. Mud / Ο Δούναβης - Λάσπη 1 eksemplar
Letters from Cuba 1 eksemplar
The Conduct Of Life 1 eksemplar
Theater: Anniversary Issue 1 eksemplar
Associated Works
Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama (1995) — Bidragyder, nogle udgaver — 917 eksemplarer
The Actor's Book of Scenes from New Plays: 70 Scenes for Two Actors, from Today's Hottest Playwrights (1988) — Bidragyder — 80 eksemplarer
The Best of Off-Broadway: Eight Contemporary Obie-Winning Plays (1980) — Bidragyder — 39 eksemplarer
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- Fornés, María Irene
- Fødselsdato
- 1930-05-14
- Dødsdag
- 2018-10-30
- Køn
- female
- Nationalitet
- USA
Cuba (birth) - Fødested
- Havana, Cuba
- Dødssted
- New York, New York, USA
- Dødsårsag
- Alzheimer’s disease
- Bopæl
- Paris, France
New York, New York, USA - Erhverv
- playwright
writing teacher
theater director - Relationer
- Sontag, Susan (partner)
Zwerling, Harriet Sohmers (partner) - Organisationer
- New York University
Padua Hills Playwrights Festival
Intar Hispanic American Arts Center
New York Theater Strategy - Priser og hædersbevisninger
- Laura Pels Foundation Awards for Drama (2002)
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American Academy of Arts and Letters Academy Award ( [1985])
Obie Award for Best New American Play
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