Armand Camille Salacrou (9 August 1899 â€" 23 November 1989) was a
French dramatist.He was born in Rouen, but spent most of his childhood
at Le Havre, and moved to Paris in 1917. His first works show the
influence of the Surrealists.He was the owner of a profitable
advertising firm, but sold it in order to devote his time to writing
plays. Encouraged by Charles Dullin, he wrote in a wide range of
styles and enjoyed great success from the mid-1930s. His later work is
usually grouped with that of the Existentialists. He flirted with
communism during the 1920s and criticized capitalism in his play
Boulevard Durand.[1] During the Nazi occupation of France, he
participated in the clandestine French resistance, an experience which
he celebrated in Les Nuits de la colère.[2]He was a member of the
Académie Goncourt, and a library in his home town is named after him.
French dramatist.He was born in Rouen, but spent most of his childhood
at Le Havre, and moved to Paris in 1917. His first works show the
influence of the Surrealists.He was the owner of a profitable
advertising firm, but sold it in order to devote his time to writing
plays. Encouraged by Charles Dullin, he wrote in a wide range of
styles and enjoyed great success from the mid-1930s. His later work is
usually grouped with that of the Existentialists. He flirted with
communism during the 1920s and criticized capitalism in his play
Boulevard Durand.[1] During the Nazi occupation of France, he
participated in the clandestine French resistance, an experience which
he celebrated in Les Nuits de la colère.[2]He was a member of the
Académie Goncourt, and a library in his home town is named after him.
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