Otto Miguel Cione

Otto Miguel Cione Falcone (15 August 1875 – 6 September 1945) was a Uruguayan journalist (using the pseudonym Martin Flores), dramatist and writer.

[5] In 1942 he was Librarian of the "Alfredo Vázquez Acevedo" Institute, the University's Section of Secondary and Higher Education.

[1] Cione began his career as a journalist with contributions to the Revista Nacional of Literature and Social Sciences, directed by José Enrique Rodó, Victor Pérez Petit and the Martínez Vigil brothers.

[7] He was one of several Uruguayan authors who flourished in Buenos Aires during the period of realism in rioplatense theater at the turn of the 20th century, others being Ismael Cortinas (1884–1940), Edmundo Bianchi (1880–1965) and Orosmán Moratorio (1883–1929).

[7] Cione won first prize out of 47 entries in the Dramatic Works competition of the National Theater in Buenos Aires with his Presente Griego (1913).

[3] Cione has been described as a vigorous humorist in the tradition of Jonathan Swift and Mark Twain, and one of the basic supports of South American literature.

The 1946 Argentine drama film Lauracha was directed by Arturo García Buhr and starring Amelia Bence.