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Matei Vișniec

Matei Vișniec is a Romanian-French playwright, poet and journalist living in Paris.

Biography
Vișniec graduated in 1980 from the History and Philosophy Faculty of the University of Bucharest. He is working as a journalist at Radio France Internationale. ==Writings==
Writings
PoetryLa noapte va ninge ("Tonight It Will Snow"), Bucharest, Alb., 1980 • Orașul cu un singur locuitor ("The Town With a Single Inhabitant"), Bucharest, Alb., 1982 • Înțeleptul la ora de ceai ("The Sage at the Tea Hour"), Bucharest, Cartea Românească, 1984. • Poeme ulterioare ("Subsequent Poems") (1987–1999), Bucharest, Cartea Românească, 2000 ProseCafeneaua Pas-Parol, novel, Bucharest, FCR, 1992 • Sindromul de panică în Orașul Luminilor, novel, Bucharest, Cartea Românească, 2009 • Un secol de ceață, novel, Bucharest, Polirom, 2021 Plays in RomanianŢara lui Gufi ("Gufi's Land", three-act play), Bucharest., IC, 1991 • Angajare de clovn ("Hiring a Clown", published in the same volume as Evangheliștii by Alina Mungiu), foreword by Marian Popescu, Bucharest., Ed. Unitext, 1993 • Teatru, vol. I-II, foreword by Valentin Silvestru, Bucharest, Cartea Românească, 1996 1991–1995) Plays in FrenchPersonne n’a le droit de traîner sans armes sur un champ de bataille, 1991 • Le marchand de temps, 1992 • Les partitions frauduleuses, 1993 • Hécatombéon, 1993 • Théâtre décomposé ou L’homme-poubelle, 1993 • La grammaire du silence, 1994 • Trois nuits avec Madox, 1994 • L’histoire des ours pandas racontée par un saxophoniste qui a une petite amie à Francfort, 1994 • Cils interdits pendant la nuit, 1995 • Paparazzi ou la chronique d’un lever de soleil avorté, 1995 • Comment pourais-je être un oiseau?, 1996 • Du sexe de la femme comme champ de bataille dans la guerre en Bosnie, 2019 • Jeanne et le feu, 2009/2019 Plays in English • "The Body of a Woman as a Battlefield in the Bosnian War", trans. Alison Sinclair in Balkan Plots: Plays from Central and Eastern Europe. 2000. ==Style==
Style
Literary critic considers his plays to be "bizarre, unclassifiable". ==References==
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