Vital Aza Álvarez-Buylla (25 April 1851 – 13 December 1912) was a Spanish author,
playwright,
poet
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and
satirist
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, born in Pola de Lena,
Asturias
Asturias (, ; ast, Asturies ), officially the Principality of Asturias ( es, Principado de Asturias; ast, Principáu d'Asturies; Galician-Asturian: ''Principao d'Asturias''), is an autonomous community in northwest Spain.
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, northwestern
Spain
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, national_motto = ''Plus ultra'' (Latin)(English: "Further Beyond")
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. After studying and practicing medicine, he began to write plays, some with
Miguel Ramos Carrión. His first, ''Basta de matemáticas'', which premiered at the Variedades in 1874, was highly successful and was followed by more than 70 other plays. The centenary of his birth was celebrated by Aguilar's publication of an
anthology of Aza's best plays in the Colección Crisol (1951).
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1851 births
1912 deaths
People from Lena, Asturias
Spanish male comedians
Spanish male poets
19th-century Spanish poets
19th-century Spanish dramatists and playwrights
20th-century Spanish poets
20th-century Spanish dramatists and playwrights
Spanish satirists
Spanish male dramatists and playwrights
19th-century male writers
20th-century Spanish male writers
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