What is Alfonso Sastre?
[[File:Alfonso Sastre.JPG|thumb|Alfonso Sastre in 2008]] '''Alfonso Sastre''' (20 February 1926 – 17 September 2021) was a Spanish playwright, essayist, and critic. He was part of the [[Generation of '36]] movement. He was a critic of [[censorship]] during the [[Francisco Franco]] dictatorship. His best known plays include ''Death Squad'' (1953), ''The Gag'' (1954), ''Death Thrust'' (1960), and ''Tragicomedy of the Gypsy Celestina'' (1984). He was born in [[Madrid]]. Sastre died in [[Hondarribia]], [[Spain]] on 17 September 2021, at the age of 95.<ref>[https://www.diariovasco.com/culturas/fallece-alfonso-sastre-20210917110806-nt.html Fallece el dramaturgo Alfonso Sastre a los 95 años en Hondarribia]</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Sastre, Alfonso}} [[Category:1926 births]] [[Category:2021 deaths]] [[Category:Spanish playwrights]] [[Category:Essayists]] [[Category:Writers from Madrid]] [[Category:Spanish activists]] {{bio-stub}}