The writer of Amde, or How to Get Rid of It and Paul Scott, are playwrights that lived during the same time period.
Eugne Ionesco (born Eugen Ionescu, ] ; 26 November 1909  28 March 1994) was a Romanian-French playwright who wrote mostly in French, and one of the foremost figures of the French Avant-garde theatre. 
Paul Mark Scott (25 March 19201 March 1978) was an English novelist, playwright, and poet, best known for his monumental tetralogy "The Raj Quartet." 
Amde, or How to Get Rid of It (French: "Amde ou comment s'en dbarrasser" ) is a play written by Eugne Ionesco in 1954 based on his earlier short story entitled "Oriflamme". 
