Fernando Arrabal

Fernando Arrabal Terán (born August 11, 1932) is a Spanish playwright, screenwriter, film director, novelist, and poet. He was born in Ceuta and settled in France in 1955. Arrabal has directed seven full-length feature films and has published over 100 plays; 14 novels; 800 poetry collections, chapbooks, and artists' books; several essays; and his notorious “Letter to General Franco” during the dictator's lifetime. 

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Locked down, playing chess: a poem by Fernando Arrabal

1/29/2021 – Spanish playwright, screenwriter, film director, novelist, and poet Fernando Abarral is locked down in Paris. Noting that he plays ten chess games online per night, he sent us a poem filled with tragic yet inspiring remembrances. Arrabal writes, “Except for the first few days, the rest was bearable”.

Fernando Arrabal - Hymn to Chess

1/1/2017 – Fernando Arrabal, born August 11, 1932, in Melilla, Spain, is a writer, director, poet and passionate about chess. He has published more than 100 plays, 14 novels, 800 poetry collections, numerous essays and for over 30 years has written a chess column for the French weekly "L'Express". To greet the new year Arrabal sends ChessBase readers a chess poem, a hymn to chess.
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