bio notes:
born: 4/19/1832
died: 9/4/1916
born as: Jose Echegaray y Eizaguirre
nationality: Spain
The leading Spanish dramatist of the last quarter of the 19th century. Along with the Provencal poet Frederic Mistral, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1904. - Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature