Jacques Séraphin Marie Audiberti (March 25, 1899 – July 10, 1965) was a French playwright, poet and novelist and exponent of the Theatre of the Absurd.

Audiberti was born in Antibes, France, the son of Louis Audiberti, a master mason, and his wife, Victorine. He began his writing career as a journalist, moving to Paris in 1925 to write for Le Journal and Le Pe* Parisien. Later, he wrote more than 20 plays on the theme of conflicting good and evil.

He married Élisabeth-Cécile-Amélie Savane in 1926. They had two daughters, Jacqueline (born 1926) and Marie-Louise (born 1928). He died in Paris in 1965, aged 66, and is interred in the Cimetière de Pantin, Pantin, Ile-de-France Region, France

Contents

• 1 Works
  • 1.1 Plays
  • 1.2 Poetry
  • 1.3 Novels
  • 1.4 Other
• 2 References

Works

Plays

• Le mal court (1947)
• L'effet Glapion (1959)
• La Fourmi dans le corps (1962)
• Quoat-Quoat
• L'Ampélour
• Les femmes du bœuf

Poetry

• Des Tonnes de *ce (1941)
• Toujours (1944)
• Rempart (1953)

Novels

• Le Maître de Milan (1950)
• Marie Dubois (1952)
• Les jardins et les fleuves (1954)
• Infanticide préconisé (1958)

Other

• La Poupée, a film scenario adapted from an earlier novel
• Dimanche m'attend, a diary published in (1965)

References