The great Spanish playwright Antonio Buero Vallejo was born in 1916, in the town of Guadalajara, in Castilla-La Mancha. His first vocation was painting which led him to move to Madrid, the city where he entered the School of Fine Arts. Once there, he became aware of the social and political problems of the country, something that was a constant in his work as a creator. theatrical.
During the Civil War, his commitment to the left led him to fight on the Republican side, so once the war was over he was sentenced to death, a penalty that would later be changed for thirty more years of captivity and which was successively lowered until he was free. in 1964. Prison marked him, something that can be seen in works such as «The foundation". In the jail itself, he coincided with Miguel Hernández, also a writer.
The recognitions that he received throughout his life were numerous, among them the Lope de Vega Prize obtained in 1949, the National Theater Prize, which he obtained three times in the consecutive years 57,58 and 59, the Larra Prize , the Cervantes 1986 or his election as a member of the Royal Academy in 1971.
Finally Buero died in Madrid in the year 2000.
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