Wilde, Oscar

Oscar Wilde was born in 1854 in Dublin (Ireland) and was a writer, poet and playwright, famous for his wit and social sarcasm. He entered the prestigious Oxford University, where he specialized in Greek classics, graduating with the highest recognitions. In 1879 moved to London. There he married, had two children, and began to produce his first successful works, such as The Canterville Ghost (1887) or Happy Prince and Other Tales (1888); his renowned novel The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890) and plays such as The Importance of Being Ernest (1895).

Between 1887 and 1889 he edited the women’s magazine Woman’s World. Wilde died in November 1900 in Paris at the age of 46, exposed to poverty and social degradation as a result of his exemplary sentence to forced labor for his homosexuality.