| Jacinto Benavente | |
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| Born | August 12, 1866 Madrid, Spain |
| Died | July 14, 1954 (aged 87) Madrid, Spain |
| Nationality | Spanish |
| Notable award(s) | Nobel Prize in
Literature 1922 |
Jacinto Benavente y Martínez (August 12, 1866 – July 14, 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]
Jacinto Benavente wrote 172 works. The most important works are:
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  | Noble Prize Official Website - Jacinto Benavente - Biography |
| | Works by Jacinto Benavente - Jacinto Benavente - Wikilivres |
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