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Jean Genet
Jean Genet
  • Born: December 19, 1910
  • Died: April 15, 1986
  • Nationality: French
  • Profession: Novelist, Dramatist, Political Activist, Poet, Philosopher

Two of Genet's poems, "The Man Sentenced to Death" and "The Fisherman of the Suquet" were adapted, respectively, as "The Man Condemned to Death" and "The Thief and the Night" and set to music for the album Feasting with Panthers, released in 2011 by Marc Almond and Michael Cashmore. Both poems were adapted and translated by Jeremy Reed.