About Georges Schéhadé
Georges Schehadé (Arabic: جورج شحادة; 2 November 1905 – 17 January 1989) was a Lebanese playwright and poet writing in French. == Life and career == Georges Schehadé was born in Alexandria, Egypt, into an aristocratic Lebanese Greek Orthodox family that originated in the Hauran region of Syria. He spent most of his life in Beirut, Lebanon. His sister was the novelist, Laurice Schehadé. He studied law at the American University of Beirut and became a general secretary at the Ecole Supérieure de Lettres in 1945. In 1930, Saint-John Perse published Schehadé's first poems in the literary magazine Commerce. During his first travel to Europe in 1933 he met Max Jacob and Jules Supervielle. After World War II, he frequently stayed in Paris where he sympathized with the Surrealists, especially with André Breton and Benjamin Péret. Between 1938 and 1951, Georges Schehadé wrote four small books of poetry that Gallimard published in 1952 under the title Les Poésies. The year before Georges Vitaly produced Schehadé's first play, Monsieur Bob'le, at the Théâtre de la Huchette, and it got very controversial reviews.
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