Playwright Francisco Nieva dies at 91
The playwright Francisco Nieva dies at age 91
The playwright Francisco Morales Nieva died Thursday at the age of 91 at his home in Madrid, as reported by the Royal Academy of Language (RAE) Nieva, born in Valdepeñas (Ciudad Real) on December 29, 1924, occupied The chair "J" of the RAE since April 29, 1990, when he took office with the speech entitled Essence and paradigm of the "gender boy.
The playwright Francisco Morales Nieva has died on Thursday at 91 years of age at his home in Madrid, as reported by the Royal Academy of Language (RAE)
Nieva, born in Valdepeñas (Ciudad Real) on December 29, 1924, occupied the chair "J" of the RAE from April 29, 1990, when he took office with the speech entitled Essence and paradigm of the "gender chico".
Professor of Scenography at the Royal School of Dramatic Art and doctor honoris causa by the University of Castilla-La Mancha (2001), Francisco Nieva, whose memoirs have been published under the title 'Things as they were' (2002), is author Of more than thirty plays, as well as novels and essays.
Articulista habitual in the means of communication, directed, besides its own creations, adaptations of classics like Miguel de Cervantes, Benito Perez Galdós and Agustín Moreto. A playwright, painter and set designer, he has won the National Polignac Award in France (1963), the National Theater Award (1979) for his work in Miguel Cervantes' Los Baños de Algiers, Prince of Asturias de las Letras (1992), the first to recognize a theatrical author.
In addition, he has been awarded the Prix Mariano de Cavia de Periodismo (1991) for "Música, maestro !, the National Prize for Dramatic Literature (1992) for The manuscript found in Zaragoza by Jan Potocki, the Gold Medal for Fine Arts (1996), the Max Prize for the Performing Arts (2011) and the Valle-Inclán Prize (2011) for 'Tórtolas, dusk and curtain'.
His narrative texts include "El viaje a Pantaélica" (1994), "Granada de las mil noches" (1994), "La llama dressed in black" (1995), "Oceánida" (1996) and 1998). His complete works (2007) have been collected in two volumes.
In 2015, her work 'Salvator Rosa or El Artista' was premiered at the María Guerrero Theater in Madrid on February 27 and months later, on November 12, at the Madrid Center for Modern Art 'Teatrillo furioso' Which brings together the works 'Farsa and calamity of Doña Paquitas de Jaén' and 'The Devil's Mass'.
Published by Del Centro Editores in a single print of one hundred copies signed by Nieva himself, this volume also includes fifteen unpublished drawings by the author.
The president of the SAR, Darío Villanueva, has transferred his condolences for this death on behalf of the entire academic institution through Twitter.
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