Person
Martínez Sierra, Gregorio (1881-1947)Other forms
Madrid (España) 1881-03-06 - Madrid (España) 1947-10-01
He was a Spanish writer and playwright born in Madrid in 1881. He wrote numerous plays during the first decades of the 20th century, some of them in collaboration with his wife, María Lejárraga. He created two magazines: Helios and Renacimiento. Considered a representative of modernist literature, he began working with poetry and later on with theater. Owner of theater's company named Teatro de arte. He was friend and partner of the Catalan writer Santiago Rusiñol, with whom he wrote different plays, both in Spanish and Catalan.
His literary career began at the age of seventeen with the publication of El poema del trabajo (1898), a work of modernist poetry. Other of his works include Diálogos fantásticos (1889), Flores de escarcha (1900) and La casa de primavera (1907). As a playwright he achieved success with La sombra del padre (1909), Primavera en otoño (1911), Sólo para mujeres (1913), Mamá (1913) and El reino de Dios (1916). His best known work, which is also considered a masterpiece, is Canción de cuna (1911), which was even performed in Broadway in 1927. Many of his works were adapted for the cinema, including Canción de cuna (1911). In 1917 he was elected director of the Eslava Theater in Madrid. He died in 1947 at the age of 66.
Date of the event: 1936 - 1939
López García, José Ramón. Aznar Soler, Manuel. Diccionario biobibliográfico de los escritores, editoriales y revistas del exilio republicano de 1939. edición de Manuel Aznar Soler y José-Ramón López García. Sevilla: Renacimiento. 2016. n. 30. Biblioteca del exilio. Anejos. 978-84-16981-15-1.