Glorieta de Miguel Mihura

Miguel Mihura Santos was born in Madrid on 21 July 1905, into a house that lived off the theatre: his father was an actor, author and impresario. The son grew up backstage, began by drawing and writing for humour magazines, and later moved into cinema as a screenwriter, credited on films such as Bienvenido, Mister Marshall. His major work took twenty years to reach the stage. He wrote Tres sombreros de copa in 1932, but producers found it too daring and no one dared to stage it. The University Spanish Theatre finally rescued it in November 1952, and the following year it won the National Theatre Prize. In 1941 he had founded La Codorniz, the magazine that set the tone of post-war humour. The Glorieta de Miguel Mihura opens in the Guindalera, very near the Glorieta de Jaime Campmany, within a municipal custom: dedicating its squares to twentieth-century writers and journalists.