让·热内(Jean Genet )1910年生于巴黎，7个月后即被家庭抛弃，上小学时因受同学歧视，开始自暴自弃。小学毕业后，热内走向社会，与流浪汉为伍，后因盗窃被监禁。18岁时，热内应征入全，但不入当了逃兵，流浪欧洲，一路行窃，多次被捕坐牢。1942年，热内在狱中开始写作，处女作《鲜花圣母》及后来的《玫瑰的奇迹》和《盛大的葬礼》获得好评。1944年，热内被判终身流放，但他在狱中继续写作。1949年，热内的文学成就得到重视和承认。在萨特等大作家的呼吁下，法国总统颁布特赦令，赦免了热内。1983年，热内获得法国国家文学大奖。《小偷日记》为热内的代表作。

Jean Genet. French writer

born Dec. 19, 1910, Paris, France

died April 15, 1986, Paris

French criminal and social outcast turned writer who, as a novelist, transformed erotic and often obscene subject matter into a poetic vision of the universe and, as a dramatist, became a leading figure in the avant-garde theatre, especially the Theatre of the Absurd.

Genet, an illegitimate child abandoned by his mother, Gabrielle Genet, …