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Antonio Buero Vallejo (1916-2000) is the most important Spanish playwright of the post-war generation. He is the author of almost three dozen pessimistic plays (A Dream of the Mind, The Story of a Staircase, It's a Holiday Now;, & In the Burning Darkness, & Words on the Sand, & The Dream Weaver) with elements of sharp social and political criticism. He was awarded a number of literary and theatre prizes, including the Lope de Vega Prize (1949) and the Cervantes Prize (1986). In his later dramas, Buero Vallejo's influence is evident in the works of Bertolt Brecht, whose works he translated.