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1950
 
    
French dramatist Eugène Ionesco's play The Bald Prima Donna launches the Theatre of the Absurd       
1953
 
    
Samuel Beckett's play Waiting for Godot ('En attendant Godot') is first performed in French in Paris       
1954
 
    
19-year-old Françoise Sagan has a major international success with her first novel, Bonjour Tristesse       
1958
 
    
Vladimir Nabokov's novel Lolita is published in Paris       
1969
 
    
English novelist John Fowles publishes The French Lieutenant's Woman, set in Lyme Regis in the 1860s       
1994
 
   
Art, a play by French-born Iranian playwright Yasmina Reza, has its premiere in Berlin