- Fernando Arrabal was born on August 11, 1932 in Melilla, Spanish Protectorate of Morocco, Spain. He is a writer and actor, known for L'arbre de Guernica (1975), Viva la muerte (1971) and L'Empereur du Pérou (1982). He has been married to Luce Moreau since February 1, 1958.
- SpouseLuce Moreau(February 1, 1958 - present)
- He has created over seven hundred artists' books with Salvador Dalí, René Magritte, Roland Topor, Ralph Gibson, Gustavo Charif, Milan Kundera, Michel Houellebecq and others.
- He is arrested in 1967 (in Spain) after writing a dedication considered "blasphemous". The leader of the international protest during the trial was Samuel Beckett, who write a "Letter to the judges of Spain in defense of Arrabal.
- He lived in Paris after 1955.
- In 1962 he founded the Panic Movement with Roland Topor and Alejandro Jodorowsky, and he wrote the first Panic Manifesto.
- He has held the honorary title of "Transcendent Satrape" in the College of Pataphysics (society founded in 1948 in tribute to Alfred Jarry). Between the previous named "Satrapes" are René Clair, Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst, Eugène Ionesco, Man Ray, the Marx Brothers, and Boris Vian (founder of the College).
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