Calle de Eugenio Sellés

He was born in Granada in 1842, studied law and worked as a lawyer before turning to writing. In Madrid he entered journalism aligned with Sagasta and published in El Globo a series of articles satirizing Spanish politics, later gathered into a book, La política de capa y espada. Theater came to him through his friendship with José Echegaray, who encouraged him to write. From that came El nudo gordiano in 1878, a drama that kept being reprinted for decades. In 1895 he joined the Spanish Royal Academy and devoted his admission speech to journalism in Spain. He died in Madrid in 1926. The city council named this street after him in 1953: a short stretch of the La Chopera neighborhood, between Jaime el Conquistador and Fernando Poo.