The Most Excellent

Francisco Nieva
BornFrancisco Morales Nieva
(1924-12-29)29 December 1924
Valdepeñas (Ciudad Real), Spain
Died10 November 2016(2016-11-10) (aged 91)
Madrid, Spain
OccupationPlaywright
NationalitySpanish
Notable awardsPrince of Asturias Award for Literature
1992
Seat J of the Real Academia Española
In office
29 April 1990 – 10 November 2016
Preceded byAntonio Tovar
Succeeded byCarlos García Gual [es]

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 Postismo. 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]

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References

  1. ^ Profile
  2. ^ "Muere el dramaturgo español Francisco Nieva". El Mundo. Retrieved 11 November 2016.
  3. ^ "Francisco Morales Nieva". Real Academia Española. Archived from the original on 30 September 2015. Retrieved 27 March 2016.
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