Yasmina Reza

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Yasmina Reza (born 1 May 1959[1]), is a French playwright, actress, novelist and screenwriter. Her parents were both of Jewish origin, her father half Russian and half Iranian, her mother Hungarian[2].

Reza began work as an actress, appearing in several new plays as well as in plays by Molière and Marivaux. In 1987 she wrote Conversations after a Burial, which won the Molière Award, the French equivalent of the Laurence Olivier Award or the Tony Award, for Best Author. Following this, she translated Kafka's Metamorphosis for Roman Polanski and was nominated for a Molière Award for Best Translation. Her second play, Winter Crossing, won the 1990 Molière Award for Best Fringe Production, and her next play The Unexpected Man, enjoyed successful productions in England, France, Scandinavia, Germany and New York. In 1995, Art premiered in Paris and went on to win the Molière Award for Best Author. Since then it has been produced world-wide and translated into 20 languages. The London production received the 1996-97 Laurence Olivier Award and Evening Standard Award. Life X 3 has also been produced in Europe, North America and Australia. Screenwriting credits include See You Tomorrow, starring Jeanne Moreau and directed by Didier Martiny. In September 1997, her first novel, Hammerklavier, was published and a new work of fiction, Une Desolation, was released in 2001.

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[edit] Works

[edit] Plays

  • Conversations après un enterrement (Conversations After a Burial), 1987
  • La Traversée de l’hiver (The Passage of Winter), 1989
  • « Art » ('Art'), 1994
  • L’Homme du hasard (The Unexpected Man), 1995
  • Trois versions de la vie (Life X 3), 2000
  • Une pièce espagnole (A Spanish Play), 2004

[edit] Novels

  • Hammerklavier[3], 1997
  • Une désolation (Desolation), 1999
  • Adam Haberberg, 2003
  • Nulle part, 2005
  • Dans la luge d'Arthur Schopenhauer (On Arthur Schopenhauer's Sledge), 2005

[edit] Screenplays

  • Jusqu'à la nuit, (Till Night) 1983 (she also acted in this)
  • Le pique-nique de Lulu Kreutz (Lulu Kreutz's picnic), 2000

[edit] As actress

  • Que les gros salaires lèvent le doigt ! (Let the Fat Cats Lift a Finger!)1982 (as a chambermaid)
  • À demain (Till Tomorrow), 1991
  • Loin (Faraway), 2001

[edit] External links

South Coast Rep articles on Yasmina Reza

[edit] Notes and references

  1. ^ According to the Bibliothèque Nationale de France, she was born in 1960.
  2. ^ Pigeat, Aurélien (2005). Art, 1994: Yasmina Reza (in French). Paris: Hatier. ISBN 2218750899. 
  3. ^ The title is a German word for 'piano', used in particular by Beethoven for a late sonata.


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