Armand Gatti

Armand Gatti studied at Centre de formation des journalistes. The recorded working language is French. The field of work recorded is drama, film screenwriting and literature. Employment is recorded with Libération, Le Parisien and Paris Match. Works named in the authority record are V like Vietnam. Distinctions recorded are Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres, Albert Londres Prize, Fénéon Prize for literature and Grand prix du théâtre.

• Name — Armand Gatti • Born — 26 January 1924 • Birthplace — Monte Carlo, Monaco • Died — 6 April 2017 • Place of death — Saint-Mandé, France • Occupation — * Playwright • poet • journalist • screenwriter • filmmaker • Years Active — 1960–2012

According to his 1989 biographer, Dorothy Knowles, Gatti was born in 1924 in a shantytown in Monaco to Auguste Rainier an Italian anarchist from Piedmont, who escaped murder in a Chicago slaughterhouse because of his political activities and fled Benito Mussolini's regime and to Letizia Lusona a maid. He died on 6 April 2017. Gatti, like his father, was an anarchist. His works included themes of prisons and escape.

• 1957 Le Poisson noir (awarded Fénéon Prize) • 1962 La vie imaginaire de l'éboueur Auguste G • 1966 Chant public devant deux chaises électriques • 1975 Die Hälfte des Himmels und wir (La Moitié du ciel et nous) - Forum Theater Berlin

• 1960 Moranbong, une aventure coréenne (writer only) • 1961 Enclosure • 1963 El Otro Cristóbal • 1968 Das imaginäre Leben des Straßenkehrers Auguste G. (writer only) • 1970 Der Übergang über den Ebro • 1983 Nous étions tous des noms d'arbres