Eduardo Haro Tecglen

Who is Eduardo Haro Tecglen?

Eduardo Haro Tecglen was a Spanish journalist, writer and theatre critic.

Born in Madrid, he studied at the Official School of Journalism where he graduated in 1943. After having been the Paris correspondent for Informaciones and El Correo Español-El Pueblo Vasco, from 1968 to 1980 he was the deputy editor Triunfo. In 1978, he became the theatre critic for El País, publishing a daily column until his death.

With his editorials in Triunfo, together with other leading journalists who criticised the Franco regime in the journal, such as its founder, José Ángel Ezcurra, Enrique Miret Magdalena, José Monleón, and later Luis Carandell and Manuel Vázquez Montalbán, he helped Triunfo become one of the leading intellectual journals and one of the leading symbols of resistance to Francoist Spain.

Although some critics, including the author Javier Marías of "collaborating" with the Franco regime, based on his having been associated with the Falange in his youth, the reality was that he had done so in order to commute his father's death sentence - to a 30-year prison sentence.