Jean-Marie Besset is a French contemporary playwright, translator and theater director. He has been nominated ten times for the Moli�re award - six times as Best Playwright and four times as Best Translator. He won in 1999 for his adaptation of Michael Frayn's Copenhagen. He won the Best New Play award from the Syndicat National de la Critique Dramatique for Ce qui arrive et ce qu'on attend in 1993, the New Theater Talent prize from the SACD, also in 1993, and the Grand Prize for Theater from the Acad�mie fran�aise in 2005. He was named Chevalier and Officier in the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, and Chevalier in the Ordre national du M�rite by the French government. 

November 22nd, 1959 in Carcassonne (Age 65)