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1910 – 1986Jean Genet (1910-1986)Died 15 April 1986, aged 75French novelist, playwright and political activist whose works, including The Thief's Journal, drew on his own experience of poverty, crime and imprisonment. He became a major figure of postwar French literature and an outspoken supporter of marginalized and revolutionary causes. He died in Paris.