Maten al leon jorge ibarguengoitia biography

Jorge Ibargüengoitia (b. 22 February 1928; d. 27 November 1983), Mexican novelist, playwright, and journalist. Ibargüengoitia was born in Guanajuato, studied engineering and drama at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), and won scholarships from the Sociedad Mexicana de Escritors (1954, 1955) and the Rockefeller (1955) and Gusseheim (1969) foundations.

Among his works are the imaginative novels Los relámpagos de agosto (1964), La ley de Herodes (1967), and Maten al león (1969). His farcical comedies resemble those by Samuel Beckett and Harold Pinter: Susana y los jóvenes (1954), Clotilde en su casa (1955), and Llegó Margo and Ante varias esfinges, both in 1956.

Later a disagreement with his mentor Rodolfo Usigli and some unfortunate stage productions alienated Ibargüengoitia from the theater. His last play, El atentado (1962), a historical farce about a presidential assassination, received the Casa de las Améric