Fernando Arrabal (Cyclopedia of World Authors, Fourth Revised Edition)
One of the founders of the so-called Panic theater movement and one of the most important playwrights to emerge in the 1960’s was the Spaniard Fernando Arrabal (ah-rah-BAHL). He was born to a military family in Melilla, Spanish Morocco. At the age of four, Arrabal moved with his mother and siblings to Ciudad Rodrigo in Spain, where he received his first schooling under the supervision of Catholic priests. At the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War, his father, who had remained loyal to the Republic, was arrested and condemned to death by the Franco insurgents; the sentence was later...
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