A belen pastores alejandro casona biography

Spanish poet and playwright (1903–1965)

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Rodríguez and the second or maternal family name is Álvarez.

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.

A belen pastores alejandro casona biography

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]

Biography

A teacher by profession, Casona expressed a strong educational vocation, inspired by the ideals of the Free Institution of Education, and his defense of progressive values in diverse cultural outreach projects such as Pedagogical Missions, created during the Second Spanish Republic.

In this same vein,