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Jacinto Grau Delgado (1877 14 August 1958) was a Spanish writer. Best known for his plays, and his theoretical approach to theater, he also wrote essays, short stories, and criticism.[1]

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Life

Grau was born in Barcelona. He served as the Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of Loyalist Spain to Panama during the Spanish Civil War.[2] Following the war he emigrated to Argentina, where he died in exile in 1958.[3]

Career

Grau published twenty-five plays over the course of fifty-five years.[4] His most celebrated work is El señor de Pigmalión (1921), which remained relatively unknown in Spain during his lifetime, though it was successful in Europe and Latin America.[1] Grau has stated that he writes plays 'with the greatest intensity possible within the limits of classical harmony'.[5]:23-24

His work is 'anti-realistic', and heavily influenced by George Bernard Shaw, as well as Henrik Ibsen, Jean Anouihl and Buero Vallejo.[4]:269-70 His contemporary critics 'universally' identified his theatre as avant-garde, though Grau 'scorned avant-garde theatre'.[6] Modern scholars have identified him as a 'psychological idealist'.[5]:23

He was nominated for a Nobel Prize in Literature in 1949.[7]

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El conde Alarcos - tragedia romancesca en tres actos (IA elcondealarcostr24718grau)
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