Francisco Nieva
Francisco Nieva | |
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Born | Francisco Morales Nieva 29 December 1924 Valdepeñas (Ciudad Real), Spain |
Died | 10 November 2016 Madrid, Spain | (aged 91)
Occupation | Playwright |
Nationality | Spanish |
Notable awards | Prince of Asturias Award for Literature 1992 |
Francisco Morales Nieva (29 December 1924 – 10 November 2016) was a Spanish playwright.[1][2]
Born in Valdepeñas, he moved to Madrid at an early age to train at the San Fernando Royal Academy of Fine Arts. He was a member of the avant-garde literary movement called . Between 1948 and 1963, he lived in Paris where his acquaintances included modernists such as Ionesco and Beckett. His first published work Es bueno no tener cabeza appeared in 1971. A past winner of the Asturias Award, he was considered to be a leading candidate for the Cervantes Prize.
Nieva was elected to Seat J of the Real Academia Española on 17 April 1986, he took up his seat on 29 April 1990.[3]
Awards[]
- National Theatre Award (1980)
- Asturias Award for Literature (1992)
- National Drama Literature Award (1992)
- Gold Medal for Merit in Fine Arts (1996)
- Madrid Region Culture Award (2007)
- Corral de Comedias Award at the Almagro Festival (2010)
Works[]
- Es bueno no tener cabeza (1971)
- El maravilloso catarro de lord Bashaville (1971)
- Tórtolas, crepúsculo y... telón (1972)
- La carroza de plomo candente (1972)
- El combate de Ópalos y Tasia (1972)
- Pelo de tormenta (1972)
- El fandango asombroso (1973)
- Coronada y el toro (1974)
- El paño de injurias (1975)
- El rayo colgado (1975)
- El baile de los ardientes (1975)
- Nosferatu (1975)
- Sombra y quimera de Larra (1976)
- La Paz (1977)
- Delirio del amor hostil (1978)
- El corazón acelerado (1979)
- Malditas sean Coronada y sus hijas (1980)
- La señora Tártara (1980)
- Las aventuras de Tirante el Blanco (1987)
- Te quiero, zorra (1987)
- Corazón de arpía (1987)
- No es verdad (1987)
- Salvador Rosa (1988)
- Los españoles bajo tierra (1988)
- La Magosta (1990)
- Catalina del demonio (1991)
- Carlota Basilfinder (1991)
- Manuscrito encontrado en Zaragoza (1991)
- Los viajes forman a la juventud (1992)
- Caperucita y el otro (1995)
- Centón de teatro (1996, 2002)
- ¡Viva el estupor! (2005)
- Misterio y festival: pequeña tetralogía satírica (2005)
- El cíclope (2009)
References[]
- ^ Profile
- ^ "Muere el dramaturgo español Francisco Nieva". El Mundo. Retrieved 11 November 2016.
- ^ "Francisco Morales Nieva". Real Academia Española. Archived from the original on 30 September 2015. Retrieved 27 March 2016.
Categories:
- 1924 births
- 2016 deaths
- Members of the Royal Spanish Academy
- People from the Province of Ciudad Real
- Spanish dramatists and playwrights
- Spanish male dramatists and playwrights
- Spanish male writers