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Birth of Vital Aza

Historical milestone · Lena, Caudal, Asturias

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The physician, writer, playwright, journalist, poet and humorist Vital Aza Álvarez-Buylla was born in Pola de Lena on 28 April 1851; he wrote thirty-eight works of his own and another twenty-four in collaboration, chiefly with Miguel Ramos Carrión and José Estremera. He studied secondary school in Oviedo and worked as a draughtsman on the Oviedo-Gijón railway before graduating in medicine in Madrid, a profession he never practised, turning instead to satirical journalism and theatre; he also published the light-verse collections Bagatelas and Pamplinas y frivolidades. In 1899 he presided over the first Sociedad de Autores Españoles. He spent his summers in Mieres, where he is buried after dying in Madrid in 1912; several Asturian theatres bear his name, among them the one in Pola de Lena.

28 de abril de 1851

Photo: Jose Luis Martinez Alvarez (CC BY-SA 2.0)

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