author
Joaquín Álvarez Quintero
1873–1944
Best known as one half of the Álvarez Quintero brothers, he helped bring Andalusian life to the stage in lively comedies, short plays, and zarzuela librettos. Their work was hugely popular in Spain for its warmth, humor, and feel for everyday speech.
2 Audiobooks
La voz de la conseja, t.2 Selección de las mejores novelas breves y cuentos de los más esclarecidos literatos
by Joaquín Álvarez Quintero, Serafín Álvarez Quintero, Vicente Blasco Ibáñez, José Echegaray, Concha Espina, Wenceslao Fernández-Flórez, Gutiérrez Gamero, Antonio de Hoyos y Vinent, J. (José) Ortega Munilla, Alvaro Retana, Diego San José, Bernardo Morales San Martín, Felipe Trigo
Doña Clarines y Mañana de Sol
by Serafín Álvarez Quintero, Joaquín Álvarez Quintero
About the author
Born in Utrera, near Seville, in 1873, Joaquín Álvarez Quintero became famous through his long creative partnership with his older brother Serafín. The two wrote so closely together that they are usually treated as a single literary team, the Álvarez Quintero brothers.
Their theater drew heavily on Andalusian settings, customs, and dialogue, and they produced a remarkably large body of work, including comedies, sainetes, and librettos for zarzuela. Their plays were widely performed and especially admired for their light touch, comic timing, and affectionate picture of everyday life.
Joaquín was elected to the Real Academia Española and continued to be associated with the joint literary name of the brothers even after Serafín's death in 1938. He died in Madrid in 1944, leaving behind a body of popular theater that remained strongly linked to the Spanish stage of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.