Georges Schehadé

Georges Schehadé was born on 2 November 1905 in Alexandria. He studied law in Beirut, worked at the Ministry of Justice, then at the École supérieure des lettres of Beirut. He wrote all his work in French: first collections of poems, then, from 1951, a body of plays that were performed in Europe in the fifties and sixties. Fleeing the civil war, he left Lebanon for Paris in the late 1970s. The Académie française awarded him in 1986 the grand prix de la Francophonie for his work as a whole, and he died in Paris on 17 January 1989.

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• TheatreMonsieur Bob'leGeorges Schehadé · 1951not translated into EnglishLiterature