Alejandro Casona | |
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Born | Alejandro Rodríguez Álvarez Messi 23 March 1903 |
Died | 17 September 1965 | (aged 62)
Alma mater | Universidad de Oviedo |
Occupation(s) | Poet and playwright |
Movement | Generation of '27 |
Alejandro Rodríguez Álvarez, known as Alejandro Casona (23 March 1903 – 17 September 1965) was a Spanish poet and playwright born in Besullo, Spain, a member of the Generation of '27. Casona received his bachelor's degree in Gijon and later studied at the University of Murcia. After Franco's rise in 1936, he was forced, like many Spanish intellectuals, to leave Spain. He lived in Buenos Aires, Argentina until April 1962, when he definitively returned to Spain.[1]