Jacinto Benavente
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| Born | 12 August 1866 Madrid, Spain |
| Died | 14 July 1954 (aged 87) Madrid, Spain |
| Nationality | Spanish |
| Notable award(s) | Nobel Prize in Literature 1922 |
Jacinto Benavente y Martínez (12 August 1866 – 14 July 1954) was one of the foremost Spanish dramatists of the 20th century. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1922.
Born in Madrid, the son of a celebrated pediatrician, he returned drama to reality by way of social criticism: declamatory verse giving way to prose, melodrama to comedy, formula to experience, impulsive action to dialogue and the play of minds. Benavente showed a preoccupation with aesthetics and later with ethics.
A liberal monarchist and a critic of Socialism, he was a reluctant supporter of the Franco regime as the only viable alternative to what he considered the disastrous republican experiment of 1931–1936. Benavente died in Aldeaencabo de Escalona (Toledo) at the age of 87. He never married. According to many sources, he was homosexual.[1][2]
Principal works [edit]
Jacinto Benavente wrote 172 works. The most important works are:
- Los intereses creados (1907), comedy involving situations similar to those found in the Commedia dell'arte; it is Benavente's most famous and often performed work. It has been translated as The Bonds of Interest.
- Rosas de otoño (1905), sentimental comedy.
- Señora ama (1908), penetrante estudio psicológico de una mujer asediada por los celos.
- La malquerida (1913), drama.
- La ciudad alegre y confiada (1916), continuation from Los intereses creados.
- Campo de armiño (1916)
- Lecciones de buen amor (1924)
- La mariposa que voló sobre el mar (1926)
- Pepa Doncel (1928)
- Vidas cruzadas (1929)
- Aves y pájaros (1940)
- La honradez de la cerradura (1942)
- La infanzona (1945)
- Titania (1946)
- La infanzona (1947)
- Abdicación (1948)
- Ha llegado Don Juan (1952)
- El alfiler en la boca (1954)
References [edit]
- ^ (Spanish) Villena, Luis Antonio de (ed.) (2002), Amores iguales. Antología de la poesía gay y lésbica, Madrid: La Esfera, ISBN 84-9734-061-2
- ^ (Spanish) Garzón, Juan Ignacio García (14 July 2004), La paradoja del comediógrafo, ABC.es, retrieved 2007-09-19
External links [edit]
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Jacinto Benavente |
- Works by Benavente at Project Gutenberg
- Works by Jacinto Benavente
- Biography and bibliography at the Books and Writers website
- Biography at the Nobel Prize official website
- Biography and bibliography at Noble-Winners.com (unofficial) website
- Brief article in the Columbia Encyclopedia Online
- Encyclopedia of World Biography article, reproduced at BookRags.com
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- 1866 births
- 1954 deaths
- People from Madrid
- Gay writers
- Nobel laureates in Literature
- Members of the Royal Spanish Academy
- Spanish dramatists and playwrights
- Spanish Nobel laureates
- Spanish monarchists
- Complutense University of Madrid alumni
- Spanish people of the Spanish Civil War (National faction)
- LGBT writers from Spain
