Octave Mirbeau Writer

Octave Mirbeau (16 February 1848 – 16 February 1917) was a French journalist, art critic, travel writer, pamphleteer, novelist, and playwright, who achieved celebrity in Europe and great success among the public, while still appealing to the literary and artistic avant-garde. His work has been translated into thirty languages.

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Birth date	February 16, 1848
Birth place	France , Trévières
Date of death	February 16, 1917
Place of death	Paris , France

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Writer

genre	Art critic
influenced	Albert Camus Franz Kafka Eugène Ionesco Léon Werth
influenced by	Arthur Schopenhauer Fyodor Dostoyevsky Leo Tolstoy
movement	Impressionism Expressionism
notable work	The Diary of a Chambermaid (novel)