 Between August 1988 and October 1989 he lived in London, where he worked for the Romanian section of the BBC.After settling down in France, he has been writing mostly in French, and has received French citizenship.After the fall of communism in Romania, in 1989, Matei Vișniec became one of the most performed playwrights in the country, with more than 30 plays put on in Bucharest and other towns.