Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

male
Souvret, Absurdist, Palme d'Or, the director of the absurd, euro, author-filmmaker
Jean-Jacques Rousseau is a Belgian absurdist film director. He was born in Souvret (Courcelles) after the Second World War. He defends "popular"...
Misha Mengelberg

Misha Mengelberg

male, 74 years old
Gaudeamus International Composers Award, Free improvisation pianist, Avant-garde pianist, Modern Creative pianist, Post-bop pianist, Absurdist
Misha Mengelberg (born June 5, 1935) is a Dutch jazz pianist and composer. He won the Gaudeamus International Composers Award in 1961. Mengelberg...
Pyotr Mamonov

Pyotr Mamonov

male, 58 years old
"The Island", Orthodox Christianity, rock singer, Venice Film Festival, rock and roll, actor…Absurdist
Pyotr Mamonov (born April 14, 1951) is a former Russian rock musician and songwriter, former frontman of the Moscow band "Zvuki Mu". Mamonov was...
Rhys Hughes

Rhys Hughes

male, 43 years old
Flann O'Brien, Surreal, pastiche, absurdism, parodies, Postscripts…Absurdist
Rhys Henry Hughes, is a Welsh writer and essayist. Born in Cardiff, Hughes is a prolific short story writer with an eclectic mix of influences,...
Lally Katz

Lally Katz

female, 31 years old
Ern Malley, The Eisteddfod, Black Swan of Trespass, Melbourne Fringe Festival, Absurdist, fringe festival
Lally Katz (born 1978) is an award-winning Australian dramatist. Lally Katz was born in 1978 in New Jersey and moved to Australia as a teenager....
Marina Carr

Marina Carr

female, 45 years old
Irish women writer, Women dramatists and playwright, Iphigenia at Aulis, Playwright, On Raftery's Hill, Low in the Dark…Absurdist
Marina Carr is an Irish playwright. Born in County Offaly, Carr attended University College Dublin before holding posts as writer-in-residence at...
Tadeusz Kantor

Tadeusz Kantor

male, deceased (1990)
assemblage, Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków, mannequins, cracovian, Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz, painter…Absurdist
Tadeusz Kantor was a Polish painter, assemblage artist, set designer and theatre director. Kantor was well renowned for his revolutionary...
Urmuz

Urmuz

male, deceased (1923)
Gheorghe Lazăr High School alumni, Surreal humour, Demetru Dem. Demetrescu-Buzău, pen name, Absurdist, committed suicide
Urmuz, pen name of Demetru Dem. Demetrescu-Buzău, was a Romanian writer of absurdist and avant-garde prose.
Bill Wallis

Bill Wallis

male, 72 years old
absurdism, Chelmsford 123, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Blackadder Goes Forth, Absurdist, Monty Python
Bill Wallis is a British actor and comedian who has appeared in numerous radio and television roles, as well as the theatre. Some of his most...
Glen Baxter

Glen Baxter

male, 65 years old
cartoonist, Cowboys, Leeds College of Art, The Independent on Sunday, Pulp Magazine, Absurdist
Glen Baxter, nicknamed "Colonel Baxter," is an English cartoonist, noted for his surrealist, absurdist drawings. Born in Leeds in 1944, Baxter was...