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Jacinto Benavente
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Jacinto Benavente

Politician · born August 12, 1866 · died 1954

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Jacinto Benavente y Martínez was one of the foremost Spanish dramatists of the 20th century. He was awarded the 1922 Nobel Prize in Literature "for the happy manner in which he has continued the illustrious traditions of the Spanish drama".

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  1. ~56Received the Nobel Prize in Literature1922
  2. ~82Became president1948

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