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Josep Maria Benet i Jornet, playwright
Noteworthy, Profiles, Spain

Josep Maria Benet i Jornet, playwright

Josep Maria Benet i Jornet - a Spanish  playwright and TV writer -  died on 6 April 2020 due to coronavirus. He was born in Barcelona. In 1997, he was awarded the Creu de Sant Jordi by the Catalan government. He died from COVID-19 during the coronavirus pandemic in Spain on 6 April 2020 at the age of 79.
Terrence McNally, playwright, librettist & screenwriter
Noteworthy, Profiles, United States

Terrence McNally, playwright, librettist & screenwriter

Terrence McNally –an American playwright, librettist, and screenwriter – passed away  on March 24, 2020 after suffering from coronavirus.   Described as "the bard of American theater" and "one of the greatest contemporary playwrights the theater world has yet produced," McNally was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame in 1996. He received the 2019 Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement, the Dramatists Guild Lifetime Achievement Award in 2011, and the Lucille Lortel Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2018, he was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the highest recognition of artistic merit in the United States.   He received the Tony Award for Best Play for Love! Valour! Compassion! and Master Class, as well as the Tony Award for Best Book of a Mus...