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Also Known As	Sebastian Melmoth • C.3.3. • Oscar Fingal O’Flahertie Wills Wilde
Born	October 16, 1854 • Dublin • Ireland
Died	November 30, 1900 (aged 46) • Paris • France
Awards And Honors	Newdigate Prize (1878)
Notable Works	“A Woman of No Importance” • “An Ideal Husband” • “De Profundis” • “Intentions” • “Lady Windermere’s Fan” • “Poems” • “Ravenna” • “Salomé” • “The Ballad of Reading Gaol” • “The Happy Prince and Other Tales” • “The Importance of Being Earnest” • “The Picture of Dorian Gray”
Movement / Style	Aestheticism • Decadent
Notable Family Members	son Vyvyan Oscar Beresford Holland

Wilde wrote two collections of fairy tales for adults, which included stories such as The Happy Prince.
After he has served his prison sentence, Wilde spent three years roaming Europe with the fabricated name Sebastian Melmoth before dying, penniless, at a hotel in Paris.
Wildes friends pushed him to escape to France, which had decriminalized homosexuality as part of the French Revolution.