Vital Aza Álvarez-Buylla (25 April 1851 – 13 December 1912) was a Spanish author, playwright,

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, born in Pola de Lena,

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, northwestern

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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 {{spain-dramatist-stub