Editing Eugène Ionesco (section)

==Honours and awards==
[[File:Tombe Ionesco.jpg|thumb|right|Ionesco's grave in [[Montparnasse cemetery]], Paris. The inscription translates: ''Pray to the I don't-know-who: Jesus Christ, I hope'']]
Ionesco was made a member of the [[Académie française]] in 1970.<ref>[http://www.academie-francaise.fr/immortels/discours_reception/ionesco.html Ionescue] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050304102432/http://www.academie-francaise.fr/immortels/discours_reception/ionesco.html |date=4 March 2005 }}.</ref> 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]]. He was nominated for the [[Nobel Prize in Literature]] eight times.<ref name="Nobel">{{Cite web |title=Eugène Ionesco |url=https://www.nobelprize.org/nomination/archive/show_people.php?id=13224 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221202093737/https://www.nobelprize.org/nomination/archive/show_people.php?id=13224 |archive-date=2 December 2022 |access-date=10 August 2024 |work=Nomination Database |publisher=[[Nobel Media]]}}</ref>