Juan Mayorga

Juan Antonio Mayorga Ruano (born 1965 in Madrid) is a Spanish dramatist.

On April 12, 2018, he was elected a member of the Language Academy to occupy chair "M," which had been vacant since the death of poet and linguist Carlos Bousoño on October 24, 2015.

[3] His 2015 play Reykjavík involves a recreation of the World Chess Championship 1972 which took place in the Icelandic capital between Boris Spassky and Bobby Fischer.

In 2016, he was awarded the XIII Europe Prize Theatrical Realities, in Craiova,[11] with the following motivation:Mayorga is a playwright.

His work has crossed national boundaries to become established in major European theatres.