Famous playwrights
person who writes plays
3,466 people
Carl Zuckmayer
1896
– 1977
· Age 80
Deceased
Annette von Droste-Hülshoff
1797
– 1848
· Age 51
Deceased
Tsitsi Dangarembga
1959
· Age 67
Alive
Buchi Emecheta
1944
– 2017
· Age 72
Deceased
Mariano José de Larra
1809
– 1837
· Age 27
Deceased
Arnold Zweig
1887
– 1968
· Age 81
Deceased
Carlo Gozzi
1720
– 1806
· Age 85
Deceased
Frances Burney
1752
– 1840
· Age 87
Deceased
Jean-Claude Carrière
1931
– 2021
· Age 89
Deceased
Robert Shaw
1927
– 1978
· Age 51
Deceased
Giambattista Marino
1569
– 1625
· Age 55
Deceased
Hugo Ball
1886
– 1927
· Age 41
Deceased
Vladimir Sorokin
1955
· Age 70
Alive
Francis Jammes
1868
– 1938
· Age 69
Deceased
Pedro Antonio de Alarcón
1833
– 1891
· Age 58
Deceased
Rosario Castellanos
1925
– 1974
· Age 49
Deceased
Arthur Adamov
1908
– 1970
· Age 61
Deceased
Ricarda Huch
1864
– 1947
· Age 83
Deceased
Matthew Gregory Lewis
1775
– 1818
· Age 42
Deceased
Peter Ackroyd
1949
· Age 76
Alive
Edna Ferber
1885
– 1968
· Age 82
Deceased
Edward Young
1683
– 1765
· Age 81
Deceased
Jeanette Winterson
1959
· Age 66
Alive
Ronald Venetiaan
1936
– 2025
· Age 89
Deceased
Christine Nöstlinger
1936
– 2018
· Age 81
Deceased
Source: Wikidata Q214917