Wajdi Mouawad

The writer, director, and actor Wajdi Mouawad is one of the most outstanding playwrights and authors in today’s francophone literary scene. His work has been translated into more than twenty languages and his plays staged in all five continents. He was born in 1968 in Lebanon, where the civil war obliged his family to seek refuge in Beirut and, subsequently, in France and Quebec. A graduate of the National Theatre School of Canada, he is currently director of La Colline National Theatre in Paris. He presented his famous quartet Le Sang des promesses: Littoral, Incendies, Fôrets, and Ciels at the Festival of Avignon. Committed to denouncing the horrific atrocities in today’s world, he was awarded the Grand Prize for Theatre (French Academy). Most of his works have been performed in Catalonia by the company La Perla 29. The most recent is Birds of a Kind (in Catalan, Tots ocells, 2024), a tragedy, directed by Oriol Broggi, about the burden of family inheritance at the painful divide between the love and hate that come from prejudices. His novel Anima (in Catalan, Ànima, Edicions del Periscopi, 2014) has received several awards, including the Llibreter Prize.