Jean Louvet

Jean Louvet (born September 28, 1934, La Louvière, Belgium—died August 29, 2015, La Louvière) was a Belgian playwright whose main subject was the lives and sufferings of the working class. Louvet was the son of a miner. As a young man, he was influenced by Existentialism, and left-wing politics led him into work in the theatre. Strongly autobiographical, his work goes beyond ideology to embrace the history of the Walloon people of southern Belgium, about...