Carlos Semprún

Carlos Semprún Maura (23 November 1926 in Madrid – 23 March 2009 in Paris) was a Spanish writer, playwright and journalist, mainly working in the French language.

From 1936 he remained outside of his native Spain (his father José María Semprún Gurrea was a diplomat to the Republican government during the Spanish Civil War) and later continued in exile after Franco's victory.

In the magazine that published 'Acción Comunista' he signed articles with the pseudonym Lorenzo Torres.

[1] He was a film critic for Diario 16 and regularly collaborated in Libertad Digital and La Ilustración Liberal with his 'Cosmopolitan Chronicles' and his 'Letter of Paris', being one of its first columnists.

He wrote over 50 plays: in 1971 his play The Sleeping Man was performed at the Théâtre du Lucernaire in Paris starring Pascale de Boysson and was directed by Laurent Terzieff.