Antonio Rojano wins the 2016 Lope de Vega Prize for his work “Furiosa Escandinavia”, which he wrote thanks to a grant from the BBVA Foundation
The dramatist Antonio Rojano, has received the 2016 Lope de Vega Prize for Furiosa Escandinavia, for which he was awarded a Leonardo Grant.
15 December, 2016
Furiosa Escandinavia is a drama of one and a half hours inspired by a reinterpretation of Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time. In the author’s own words, ‘It’s an original dramatic text that deals with forgetting, memory, love and death in the early years of the 21st century.’ The playwright explained that the text is not a mere transcription of Swann’s Way, the first volume of Proust’s work, but rather a re-reading of it from today’s perspective, maintaining Proust’s original intention to capture his age, but with its own identity.
Work on the text took Rojano ten months, which will culminate in the publication and premiere of the work next year.
Author
Antonio Rojano was born in Cordoba in 1982. In 2005 he won the National Calderón de la Barca Theater Prize, granted by the Ministry of Culture, for his work Sueños de Arena.
He is author of a dozen plays, among them La decadencia en Varsovia, winner of the 2006 Miguel Romero Esteo and Marqués de Bradomín prizes; and El cementerio de neón, winner of the 2009 Caja España Theater Prize. His other works are Fair Play, Ascensión y Caída de Mónica Seles, and DioS K, a play based on the novel Karnaval by Juan Francisco Ferré, which was directed by Víctor Velasco and premiered by the Teatro Español in the Naves del Español del Matadero space (Madrid, 2016), La ciudad oscura and Nací en el Norte para morir en el Sur. Currently, he is working on a play thanks to the 1st El Pavón Teatro Kamikaze Grant.
He has also been a screenwriter for the videogame Deadlight, for which he was nominated for the 2013 British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) Awards (Best Game Debut).