Jean-Luc Lagarce

Jean-Luc Lagarce (; 14 February 1957 – 30 September 1995) was a French actor, theatre director and playwright. Although only moderately successful during his lifetime, since his death he has become one of the most widely-produced contemporary French playwrights.

Born in Héricourt, Haute-Saône, He was rediscovered by critics after his death,

In 2015, film director Xavier Dolan adapted Lagarce's Juste la fin du monde into the film It's Only the End of the World, which won the Grand Prix and the Ecumenical Jury Prize at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival. Le pays lointain was produced at theatre Odeon, Paris in 2019.

Works

Plays La bonne de chez Ducatel, 1977 Erreur de construction, 1977 Carthage, encore, 1978 La Place de l'autre , 1979 Voyage de Madame Knipper vers la Prusse Orientale, 1980 Ici ou ailleurs, 1981 Les Serviteurs, 1981 Noce, 1982 Vagues souvenirs de l'année de la peste, 1982 Hollywood, 1983 Histoire d'amour (repérages), 1983 Retour à la citadelle, 1984 Les Orphelins, 1984 De Saxe, roman, 1985 La Photographie, 1986 Derniers remords avant l'oubli, 1987 Les Solitaires intempestifs, 1987 Music-hall, 1988 Les Prétendants, 1989 Juste la fin du monde, 1990 Histoire d'amour (derniers chapitres), 1990 Les règles du savoir-vivre dans la société moderne, 1993 Nous, les héros, 1993 Nous, les héros (version sans le père), 1993 J'étais dans ma maison et j'attendais que la pluie vienne, 1994 Le Pays lointain, 1995

Prose Trois récits, 1994, a collection of three short stories

Other fiction Quichotte, 1989, libretto for a jazz opera by Mike Westbrook Retour à l'automne, screenplay cowritten with Gérard Bouysse

Non-fiction Théâtre et Pouvoir en Occident, a study of how dramatists have contended with political power, from Ancient Greece to the middle of the twentieth century Journal, volume 1: 1977–1990, volume 2: 1990–1995