Lauro Olmo

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Lauro Olmo

Lauro Olmo Gallego (born November 9, 1922 in El Barco de Valdeorras , † June 19, 1994 in Madrid ) was a Spanish writer.

Life

Olmo attended municipal schools in Madrid, where his family had emigrated from Argentina. His studies were interrupted by the Spanish Civil War and he continued his education as an autodidact. In 1954 he made his debut as an author of poems and short stories, and in the following year his first play El milagro appeared . For the piece Doce cuentos y uno más he was awarded the Premio Leopoldo Alas .

With his most famous play La camisa , which premiered in 1962 and was translated into several languages, Olmo brought about the breakthrough of teatro social in Spain. As a result, he had problems with censorship; His piece La condecoración was premiered in France in 1965 and could only be played in Spain from 1977, La noticia (from 1963) was first performed in 1990 at the Teatro Español Contemporáneo .

In addition to many other plays, Olmo u. a. Arrangements of plays by Bertolt Brecht as well as children's plays with his wife, the writer Pilar Enciso . For Asamblea General , both received the Premio Manuel Espinosa y Cortina of the Real Academia Española in 1982 . In 1993, Olmo was a finalist at the Premio Príncipe de Asturias de las Letras . Olmo wrote the screenplay for his film Juego de hombres (1963) with José Luis Gamboa . His son is the archeologist Lauro Olmo Enciso .

Works

  • El milagro (1955)
  • Doce cuentos y uno más
  • La camisa (1962)
  • La noticia (1963)
  • La pechuga de la sardina (1963)
  • La condecoración (1965)
  • La condecoración (1965)
  • El cuerpo (1966)
  • El raterillo (1967)
  • English Spoken (1967)
  • El cuarto poder (1970)
  • Historia de un pechicidio o la venganza de don Mauro (1974)
  • Mare Nostrum (1982)
  • Pablo Iglesias (1984)
  • La jerga nacional (1986)
  • Asamblea General
  • El león engañado

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