Overview
Matei Vișniec (; born 29 January 1956) is a Romanian-French playwright, poet and journalist living in Paris.
Biography
Vișniec graduated in 1980 from the History and Philosophy Faculty of the University of Bucharest. He is working as a journalist at Radio France Internationale.
Poetry
*La noapte va ninge ("Tonight It Will Snow"), Bucharest, Alb., 1980 *Orașul cu un singur locuitor ("The Town With a Single Inhabitant"), Bucharest, Alb., 1982 *Înțeleptul la ora de ceai ("The Sage at the Tea Hour"), Bucharest, Cartea Românească, 1984. *Poeme ulterioare ("Subsequent Poems") (1987–1999), Bucharest, Cartea Românească, 2000
Prose
*Cafeneaua Pas-Parol, novel, Bucharest, FCR, 1992 *Sindromul de panică în Orașul Luminilor, novel, Bucharest, Cartea Românească, 2009 * Un secol de ceață, novel, Bucharest, Polirom, 2021
Plays in Romanian
*Ţara lui Gufi ("Gufi's Land", three-act play), Bucharest., IC, 1991 *Angajare de clovn ("Hiring a Clown", published in the same volume as Evangheliștii by Alina Mungiu), foreword by Marian Popescu, Bucharest., Ed. Unitext, 1993 *Teatru, vol. I-II, foreword by Valentin Silvestru, Bucharest, Cartea Românească, 1996 1991–1995)
Plays in French
*Personne n’a le droit de traîner sans armes sur un champ de bataille, 1991 *Le marchand de temps, 1992 *Les partitions frauduleuses, 1993 *Hécatombéon, 1993 *Théâtre décomposé ou L’homme-poubelle, 1993 *La grammaire du silence, 1994 *Trois nuits avec Madox, 1994 *L’histoire des ours pandas racontée par un saxophoniste qui a une petite amie à Francfort, 1994 *Cils interdits pendant la nuit, 1995 *Paparazzi ou la chronique d’un lever de soleil avorté, 1995 *Comment pourais-je être un oiseau?, 1996 *Du sexe de la femme comme champ de bataille dans la guerre en Bosnie, 2019 *Jeanne et le feu, 2009/2019
Plays in English
* "The Body of a Woman as a Battlefield in the Bosnian War", trans. Alison Sinclair in Balkan Plots: Plays from Central and Eastern Europe. 2000.
Style
Literary critic considers his plays to be "bizarre, unclassifiable".