walls of the real that separate us from reality, to participate in being so as to live as if it were the first day of creation, a day that would every day be the first day of new creations." Raymond Queneau, a former associate of Breton and a champion of Ionesco's work, was a member of the Collège de ’Pataphysique and a founder of Oulipo, two groups with which Ionesco was associated. Politically, Ionesco expressed sympathy with the left-libertarian Transnational Radical Party of Marco Pannella. Honours and awards Ionesco was made a member of the Académie française in 1970. He also received numerous awards including Tours Festival Prize for film, 1959; Prix Italia, 1963; Society of Authors Theatre Prize, 1966; Grand Prix National for theatre, 1969; Monaco Grand Prix, 1969; Austrian State Prize for European Literature, 1970; Jerusalem Prize, 1973; and honorary Doctoral Degrees from New York University and the Universities of Leuven, Warwick and Tel Aviv. In 1964 he was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature. Death Eugène Ionesco died at age 84 on 28 March 1994 and is buried in the Cimetière du Montparnasse in Paris. In 2009, the Romanian Academy granted posthumous membership to Ionesco. Theatrical works Long plays Amédée, or How to Get Rid of It (1954) The Killer (1958) Rhinoceros (1959) Exit the King (1962) Stroll in the Air (1962) Hunger and Thirst (1964) The Killing Game aka Here Comes a Chopper (1970) Macbett (1972) Oh, What a Bloody Circus aka A Hell of a Mess (1973) Man with Bags (1977) Journeys Among the Dead (1980) Short plays The Bald Soprano (1950) Salutations (1950) The Lesson (1951) The Motor Show (1951) The Chairs (1952) The Leader (1953) Victims of Duty (1953) Maid to Marry (1953) Jack, or The Submission (1955) The New Tenant (1955) The Picture (1955) Improvisation (1956) The Foot of the Wall (1956) The Future is in Eggs, or It Takes All Sorts to Make a World (1957) Foursome (1959) Frenzy for Two, or More (1962) The Oversight (1966) Vignettes The Duel (1971) Double Act (1971) Monologue How to Prepare a Hard-Boiled Egg (1966) Ballet scenario Learning to Walk (1960) Opera libretto Maximilien Kolbe (1987) Other writings Fiction The Colonel's Photograph and Other Stories (1962) The Hermit (1973) Stories 1, 2, 3, 4 (2012) Non-fiction Hugoliad, or The Grotesque and Tragic Life of Victor Hugo (1935, published 1982) Notes and Counter-Notes (1962)