Editing Jean Anouilh (section)

{{Short description|French playwright (1910–1987)}}
{{Infobox writer
| name             = Jean Anouilh
| image            = Anouilh 1940 2b.jpg
| caption          = Anouilh {{circa|1940}}
| birth_name       = {{nowrap|Jean Marie Lucien Pierre Anouilh}}
| birth_date       = {{birth date|1910|06|23|df=y}}
| birth_place      = [[Bordeaux]], France
| death_date       = {{death date and age|1987|10|03|1910|06|21|df=y}}
| death_place      = [[Lausanne]], Switzerland
| occupation       = Dramatist and screenwriter
| genre            = 
| subject          = 
| movement         = [[Modernist literature|Modernism]]
| notableworks     = ''The Lark''<br>''Becket''<br>''Traveler without Luggage''<br>''Antigone''
| spouse           = {{plainlist|
* Monelle Valentin (m. 1931)
* Nicole Lançon (m. 1953)}}
| awards           = ''[[Prix mondial Cino Del Duca]]''
| signature        = Jean Anouilh Signature.svg
}}

'''Jean Marie Lucien Pierre Anouilh''' ({{IPAc-en|ɑː|ˈ|n|uː|j|ə}};<ref>{{Cite Dictionary.com|Anouilh}}</ref> {{IPA|fr|ʒɑ̃ anuj|lang}};{{efn|Not, as often mispronounced, {{IPA|fr|anwi}}.}} 23 June 1910 – 3 October 1987)  was a French [[dramatist]] and screenwriter whose career spanned five decades. Though his work ranged from high drama to absurdist farce, Anouilh is best known for his 1944 play ''[[Antigone (Anouilh)|Antigone]]'', an adaptation of [[Sophocles]]' classical drama, that was seen as an attack on [[Philippe Pétain|Marshal Pétain]]'s [[Vichy France|Vichy government]]. His plays are less experimental than those of his contemporaries, having clearly organized plot and eloquent dialogue.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Norwich|first=John Julius|title=Oxford Illustrated Encyclopedia Of The Arts|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=1990|isbn=978-0198691372|location=USA|pages=18}}</ref> One of France's most prolific writers after World War II, much of Anouilh's work deals with themes of maintaining integrity in a world of moral compromise.<ref name="Smith"/>