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Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt (French pronunciation: [eʁik emanɥɛl ʃmit]; born 28 March 1960) is a Franco-Belgian playwright, short story writer and novelist, as well as a film director. His plays have been staged in over fifty countries all over the world.
Within a decade, Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt has become one of the most read and acted French-language writers in the world. His books have been translated into 43 languages, and more than 50 countries regularly perform his plays.
Short Biography. In two decades, Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt has become one of the most widely read and performed French-language authors in the world. Acclaimed by audiences and critics alike, his plays have won several Molières and the French Academy’s Grand Prix du Théâtre.
Apr 3, 2024 · At the heart of Enigma, an operatic adaptation by Patrick Burgan of author Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt’s play Enigma Variations, two men come face to face in a highly confidential setting and draw us into an uncanny emotional labyrinth. How do the sensitivity and poignancy of this play translate on the opera stage?
Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt, 50, started his working life as a teacher of philosophy in Paris and is now among France's best-selling and most productive authors. Described as a "lucid moralist", his deceptively simple plays and novels have been translated into 43 languages.
About Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt: A popular contemporary French author and dramatist, his plays are translated and staged in more than 30 countries all over t...
Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt is one of Europe’s most popular and acclaimed authors and playwrights. His many novels and story collections include The Most Beautiful Book in the World (Europa, 2009). In 2001, he was awarded the French Academy’s Grand Prix du Théâtre.
