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Miguel Mihura

1905 - 1977

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Miguel Mihura Santos (21 July 1905, in Madrid – 27 October 1977) was a Spanish playwright. He is best known for his comedy Tres sombreros de copa (1952), a work of absurd humor that predates similar works by Beckett or Ionesco and that broke with many of the previous conventions of Spanish comic theatre. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Miguel Mihura has received more than 32,081 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Miguel Mihura is the 5,271st most popular writer (down from 4,599th in 2019), the 1,603rd most popular biography from Spain (down from 1,376th in 2019) and the 193rd most popular Spanish Writer.

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  • 15

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.83

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  • 3.25

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Miguel Mihura ranks 5,271 out of 5,755Before him are Lin Carter, Kevin Kelly, Kjartan Fløgstad, John of Worcester, Heinrich Christian Boie, and Damon Runyon. After him are José Carlos Somoza, Anton Donchev, Giorgio Faletti, Horacio Guarany, Thomas Traherne, and Ha Jin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1905, Miguel Mihura ranks 301Before him are László Papp, Mir Sultan Khan, Herman Steiner, Anna Chandy, Henry Wilcoxon, and Sheikh Abdullah. After him are Iosif Kheifits, Richard Haydn, Bernt Evensen, Mahmoud Mokhtar El Tetsh, Anthony Powell, and Max Bulla. Among people deceased in 1977, Miguel Mihura ranks 206Before him are Philibert Smellinckx, Richard Brauer, Américo Tesoriere, Rudolf Cvetko, Karl Kreutzberg, and José Naya. After him are Birger Rosengren, Carroll Quigley, Wilmer Allison, Jean Delarge, Harald Strøm, and Héctor Méndez.

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In Spain

Among people born in Spain, Miguel Mihura ranks 1,603 out of 2,932Before him are Ramón Piñeiro López (1915), Arnaldo Otegi (1958), Antonio Ozores (1928), Millie Bobby Brown (2004), Félix Sánchez Bas (1975), and Marcelino Oreja, 1st Marquis of Oreja (1935). After him are Jerónimo Saavedra (1936), Giovanni Simeone (1995), Jaume Balagueró (1968), Inés Sastre (1973), Àlex Crivillé (1970), and Àlex Corretja (1974).

Among WRITERS In Spain

Among writers born in Spain, Miguel Mihura ranks 193Before him are Valentín Paz-Andrade (1898), Gabriel Miró (1879), Carme Riera (1948), Julia Navarro (1953), Elvira Lindo (1962), and Xosé María Díaz Castro (1914). After him are Manuel Rivas (1957), José Hierro (1922), Gaspar Núñez de Arce (1832), Albert Sánchez Piñol (1965), Lucía Etxebarría (1966), and José Jiménez Lozano (1930).