Jacinto Benavente
Spanish dramatist (1866-1954), awarded the 1922 Nobel Prize in Literature "for the happy manner in which he has continued the illustrious traditions of the Spanish drama". His best-known play, Los intereses creados (1907), reworks commedia dell'arte into a satire of social hypocrisy.
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Jacinto Benavente was born on 12 August 1866 in Madrid and died on 14 July 1954 in Madrid.
Benavente received the 1922 Nobel Prize in Literature "for the happy manner in which he has continued the illustrious traditions of the Spanish drama".
Los intereses creados (1907), his reworking of commedia dell'arte figures into an ironic allegory, has repeatedly been called his masterpiece and is the most staged of his plays; La Malquerida (1913) is his best-known rural psychological drama.