Jacques Audiberti

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.[1][2] He began his writing career as a journalist, moving to Paris in 1925 to write for Le Journal and Le Petit Parisien. Later, he wrote more than 20 plays on the theme of conflicting good and evil.[3]

He married Élisabeth-Cécile-Amélie Savane in 1926.[1] They had two daughters, Jacqueline (born 1926) and Marie-Louise (born 1928).[2] He died in Paris in 1965, aged 66,[3] and is interred in the Cimetière de Pantin, Pantin, Ile-de-France Region, France