Ricardo Lezcano Escudero, poet, playwright, hacienda inspector, researcher, translator, journalist, director and theatrical actor was born in Madrid in 1917. From 1920 to 1968 he lived in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, except for the period from 1932 to 1940 when he resided in Barcelona. His poetic journey began in 1940 with the publication of a brief poem in the "Collection for 30 Bibliophiles". Since then his literary activity focused on poetry, law and journalistic chronicle publishing, Among others, "The Law on Jurisdictions" (1978), "Divorce in the Second Republic " (1979), "Exhumation of Memory" (1983), "Short Anthology" (1990), "20 Years of Journalism" (1992), "History of the Island Theatre (1996), "Letters to Richard by His Brother Peter 1940-2000" (2006), "Against This and That" (2007) and "Memorial of Lights shadows and defeats" (2010). One of his most interesting creations was the foundation, together with his brother Pedro, of the Teatro Insular de Cámara. Between 1956 and 1968 the Lezcano brothers, under the patronage of The Canary Museum and with the collaboration of a group of theater fans, directed and staged 35 dramatic works, reaching a total of 86 performan
ces. Ricardo Lezcano died in Madrid on 14 June 2013.
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