Gabriel Arout

Gabriel Arout
Died	February 14, 1982(1982-02-14) (aged 73)
Nationality	Russian
Known for	writer, dramatist and translator

Gabriel Arout was a Russian-born writer, dramatist and translator. He was born in Nakhchivan-on-Don (Russia) on 28 January 1909 and died in Paris on 14 February 1982.

Biography

Witness to the war and the Russian revolution, he arrived with his family in France by the Mediterranean in 1921. He was a pupil of the Lycée Charlemagne where he befriended Paul Ackerman. In 1930, he obtained his license of letters at the Sorbonne. He was attracted to the novel, and then decided to turn to the theater. His first play, Orpheus or the Fear of Miracles, was written in 1935, but was a "furnace" at its creation in 1943. His second play, Pauline or the foam of the sea (1948) was a success in which Pierre Fresnay stood out. Other successes followed: Gog and Magog, This strange animal, Twice two make five, and Apples for Eve.

In the mid-1950s, Gabriel Arout made several notable incursions into the world of cinema. He co-wrote the dialogues of Alex Joffé's Les Hussards (1955), in which Bourvil had a leading role. He was also the coauthor of Marc Allegret's adaptation of Sois belle et tais-toi (1958) and the dialogue of Death in the Garden (1956) by Luis Buñuel.

Gabriel Arout, a lover of culture, particularly passionate about the legacy of the great Greek playwrights, was the author of more than twenty plays that have been created by directors such as Pierre Dux, Michel Vitold, Claude Regy and Georges Vitaly, with François Perier, Jean Piat, Denise Gence, Jean Rochefort and Louis Velle among the first interpreters.

In 1978, Gabriel Arout received the grand prize of the Society of the authors and composers dramatic and in 1981 the grand prize of the theater of the French Academy. His last play, Yes, ends with a long monologue testamentary where man finds himself to be the master of his destiny. He died in 1982.

In 2002, his play The Strange Animal - a comedy - was staged again in Paris, at the Théâtre de Nesle, with Anne-Elisabeth Blateau, Francis Prieur and Cédric Villenave in the lead roles.

Gabriel Arout translated some Russian works with his brother, translator Georges Arout (1911-1970, born Eugène Aroutcheff), including Dostoevsky's novel The Idiot (1946) and Vichnevsky's Optimist Tragedy (1951).

Works

Awards ad honors

• Prix SACD 1978 : Grand Prix de la SACD
• Grand Prix du Théâtre de l’Académie Français, 1981

References

• http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0037053/news
• http://im.avasub.in/name/nm0037053