María Irene Fornés (1930–2018)
Autor de Fefu and Her Friends
Sobre El Autor
María Irene Fornés was born in Havana, Cuba on May 14, 1930. She moved with her mother and a sister to New York City in 1945. Before becoming a playwright, she was a painter who studied for a time with the Abstract Expressionist Hans Hofmann. Fornés taught playwriting at New York University, the mostrar más Padua Hills Playwrights Festival in California, and the Intar Hispanic American Arts Center in Manhattan. In 1965, collaborating with the composer Al Carmines, she wrote the book and lyrics for Promenade. Her other plays included Fefu and Her Friends, Mud, The Danube, The Conduct of Life, Abingdon Square, Enter the Night, and Letters from Cuba. Her plays received eight Obie awards and she received an Obie for lifetime achievement in 1982. She died on October 30, 2018 at the age of 88. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
Créditos de la imagen: Maha Muslimah
Obras de María Irene Fornés
The Danube 3 copias
Springtime 2 copias
Theater - Winter, 1968 1 copia
Mud 1 copia
Promenade 1 copia
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Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Nombre canónico
- Fornés, María Irene
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1930-05-14
- Fecha de fallecimiento
- 2018-10-30
- Género
- female
- Nacionalidad
- USA
Cuba (birth) - Lugar de nacimiento
- Havana, Cuba
- Lugar de fallecimiento
- New York, New York, USA
- Causa de fallecimiento
- Alzheimer’s disease
- Lugares de residencia
- Paris, France
New York, New York, USA - Ocupaciones
- playwright
writing teacher
theater director - Relaciones
- Sontag, Susan (partner)
Zwerling, Harriet Sohmers (partner) - Organizaciones
- New York University
Padua Hills Playwrights Festival
Intar Hispanic American Arts Center
New York Theater Strategy - Premios y honores
- Laura Pels Foundation Awards for Drama (2002)
Publishing Triangle
American Academy of Arts and Letters Academy Award ( [1985])
Obie Award for Best New American Play
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- También por
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- Miembros
- 279
- Popularidad
- #83,281
- Valoración
- 3.8
- Reseñas
- 4
- ISBNs
- 11
- Idiomas
- 1
- Favorito
- 2