Jacinto Benavente
Jacinto Benavente
The Nobel Prize in Literature 1922
Name: Jacinto Benavente
Birth: 12 August 1866, Madrid, Spain
Death: 14 July 1954, Madrid, Spain
Residence at the time of the award: Spain
Prize motivation: “for the happy manner in which he has continued the illustrious traditions of the Spanish drama”
Field: drama
Language: Spanish
Not Married
“You meet the warrior when in battle but it is not until victory that you meet the gentleman”.
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Jacinto Benavente age less than 41yrs. , before 1908. Author: Christian Franzen, Danish-born diplomat and photographer, operator of a photo studio in Madrid, Spain. Source: Spanish magazine Actualidades collection/Wikimedia Commons.
Jacinto Benavente 4th from left. Spanish actress Rosario Pino surrounded by playwrights in a hall of the Princess Theatre to mark the farewell function for her. 1914. Author: Not stated. Source: Wikimedia Commons.
Jacinto Benavente y Martínez, 1923. Press photograph from George Grantham Bain collection. Source: Library of Congress/Wikimedia Commons.
Scene of the premiere of the play ‘When the children of Eve are not the children of Adam’, by Jacinto Benavente. Source: Mundo Gráfico Magazine, Madrid, Spain, 1931-11-11/Wikimedia Commons.
Jacinto Benavente. Author: Ramon Casas i Carbó, Spanish painter. Source: National Art Museum of Catalonia, Barcelona/Wikimedia Commons.