Theatre: Death of Writer and Director Valère Novarina
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DISPARITION - The playwright, poet, painter and scenographer died on Friday, January 16 at the age of 83. He will remain as one of the most inspired theatremen of the last fifty years.
His passion for language and the unconventional shaped Novarina's work. Now the playwright and painter died at the age of 83.
His plays were played almost every year at the Festival d'Avignon, a high place of theatrical creation in France.
The death of the playwright, author and painter Valère Novarina was confirmed Saturday morning. He was 83 years old
Valère Novarina, a playwright and Franco-Swiss painter, died at the age of 83. Author of an unclassifiable theatre, he had marked the Avignon Festival and cultivated a passion for language and artistic creation. ...
He was both author and director, but also painter and visual artist. Author, as he himself said, of "Cathedrals of Breath", faithful to the Festival de théâtre d'Avignon, the Franco-Switzerland Valère Novarina died on 16 January 2026 in Neuilly-sur-Seine.
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