Azcona, Rafael

Azcona, Rafael
▪ 2009

      Spanish novelist and screenwriter

born Oct 24, 1926, Logroño, Spain

died March 24, 2008, Madrid, Spain
penned some 100 screenplays, notably for La Grande Bouffe (1973) and Belle Epoque (1992), which won the Academy Award for best foreign-language film. Many of Azcano's scripts—including his first two, Se vende un tranvía and El pisito (both 1959)—were adapted from his own novels and short stories. In 1988 he won the first of five Goya Awards for best screenplay, for El bosque animado (he was simultaneously nominated for Moros y cristianos). He was granted Spain's Fine Arts Gold Medal in 1994 and was awarded an honorary Goya for lifetime achievement in 1998. Azcona's last film, Los girasoles ciegos (2008), was an adaptation of a novel by Alberto Méndez.

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