Oskar Wilde was borne on October 16, 1854 in Dublin.

His mother was a poet and jurnalist. His father was a doctor and alsoa writer. Wilde studied in Dublin and Oxford and was more inspired by art than by nature.

He worked as an art reviewer and lectured in the United States, Canada, Paris and London. In 1884 he was married. In 1888 he published "The Happy Prince and Other tales", fairy-storie written for his two sons. Wilde made his reputation in the theatre world with his reputation in the theatre world with his very popular and witty comedies which are full of observations of people's behaviour and characters: e.g. "Lady Windermenere's Fan, An Ideal Husband". Influenced by French literature, Widle wrote his only novel "The Picture of Dorian Gray". In 1895 Wilde was sentenced to two years in prion for homosexuality, then illegal in Britain. After his release he wrote "The Ballad of Reading Goal". Wilde died on November 30, 1900, penniless, in a cheap hotel in Paris.