Authors from Spain

Emilia Pardo Bazán
Emilia Pardo Bazán
Authors

Emilia Pardo Bazán (16 September 1851 – 12 May 1921) (also known as Emilia, countess de Pardo Bazán) was a Galician author and scholar. Pardo Bazán was born in A Coruña part of the region of...

Miguelanxo Prado
Miguelanxo Prado
Authors

Miguelanxo Prado is a Spanish comic book creator. He was born in A Coruña, Galicia in 1958. Prado studied architecture, wrote novels and painted before his career in comics. He worked for...

Manuel Rivas
Manuel Rivas
Authors

Manuel Rivas (born in A Coruña, Galicia in 1957) is a Galician writer, poet and journalist. He began his career in some Spanish newspapers like El Ideal Gallego, La Voz de Galicia, El Pais...

Diego Velázquez
Diego Velázquez
Authors, Artists

Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez was a Spanish painter who was the leading artist in the court of King Philip IV. He was an individualistic artist of the contemporary...

Vicente Aleixandre
Vicente Aleixandre
Authors

Vicente Pío Marcelino Cirilo Aleixandre y Merlo was a Spanish poet who was born in Seville. Aleixandre was a Nobel Prize laureate for Literature in 1977. He...

Nicholas Cardinal Wiseman
Nicholas Cardinal Wiseman
Authors

Nicholas Patrick Stephen Wiseman (1802–1865) was an English Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church, who became the first Archbishop of Westminster upon the re-establishment of the Catholic...

Bartolomé de Las Casas
Bartolomé de Las Casas
Authors

Bartolomé de las Casas O.P. (c. 1484 – 18 July 1566) was a 16th-century Spanish Dominican priest, the first resident Bishop of Chiapas. As a settler in the New World he witnessed, and was...

Antonio Machado
Antonio Machado
Authors

Antonio Cipriano José María y Francisco de Santa Ana Machado y Ruiz, known as Antonio Machado (26 July 1875 – 22 February 1939) was a Spanish poet and one of the leading figures of the...

Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer
Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer
Authors

Gustavo Adolfo Domínguez Bastida, better known as Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer, (Seville February 17, 1836; Madrid (December 22, 1870) was an Andalusian post-romanticist writer of poetry and short...

Luis Cernuda
Luis Cernuda
Authors

Luis Cernuda (born Luis Cernuda Bidón September 21, 1902, Seville – November 5, 1963, Mexico City), was a Spanish poet and literary critic. The son of a military man, Cernuda received a...

Mateo Alemán
Mateo Alemán
Authors

Mateo Alemán y de Enero (Seville, Spain, 1547 – 1615? in Mexico) was a Spanish novelist and writer. He graduated at Seville University in 1564, studied later at Salamanca and Alcalá, and...

Ramon Llull
Ramon Llull
Authors

Ramon Llull (1232 – June 29, 1315) (anglicised Raymond Lully, Raymond Lull, in Latin Raimundus or Raymundus Lullus or Lullius, in Spanish Raimundo Lulio) was a Majorcan writer and...

José Echegaray
José Echegaray
Authors

José Echegaray y Eizaguirre (April 19, 1832 Madrid, Spain—September 14, 1916) was a Spanish civil engineer, mathematician, statesman, and the one of the leading Spanish dramatists of the...

Jacinto Benavente
Jacinto Benavente
Authors

Jacinto Benavente y Martínez (August 12, 1866 – July 14, 1954) was one of the foremost Spanish dramatists of the 20th century. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1922. Born in...

Juan Muñoz
Juan Muñoz
Artists

Juan Muñoz was a Spanish famous sculptor. He is known internationally for his enigmatic sculptural installations, often populated by strangely...

Juan Gris
Juan Gris
Artists, Authors

José Victoriano González-Pérez , better known as Juan Gris, was a Spanish painter and sculptor who lived and worked in France most of his life. His works are closely connected...

Javier Marías
Javier Marías
Authors

Javier Marías (born September 20, 1951, in Madrid) is a Spanish novelist. He is also a translator and columnist. Javier Marías was born in Madrid. His father was the philosopher Julián...

Eulalia, Duchess of Galliera
Eulalia, Duchess of Galliera
Authors

Infanta Eulalia of Spain (12 February 1864 – 8 March 1958) was a Spanish infanta known for her controversial books. Eulalia was born in the Royal Palace of Madrid, the youngest child of...

José Ortega y Gasset
José Ortega y Gasset
Authors

José Ortega y Gasset (9 May 1883 – 18 October 1955) was a Spanish liberal philosopher and essayist working during the first half of the 20th century while Spain oscillated between monarchy...

Pedro Calderón de la Barca
Pedro Calderón de la Barca
Authors

Pedro Calderón de la Barca y Barreda González de Henao Ruiz de Blasco y Riaño usually referred as Pedro Calderón de la Barca (17 January 1600 – 25 May 1681), was a writer, poet and dramatist...

Francisco J. Ayala
Francisco J. Ayala
Authors

Francisco José Ayala Pereda (born March 12, 1934) is a Spanish-American biologist and philosopher at the University of California, Irvine. He is a former Dominican priest, ordained in 1960...

Lope de Vega
Lope de Vega
Authors

Félix Arturo Lope de Vega y Carpio (25 November 1562 – 27 August 1635) was a Spanish playwright and poet. He was one of the key figures in the Spanish Golden Century Baroque literature. His...

George Santayana
George Santayana
Authors

George Santayana (December 16, 1863, Madrid, Spain – September 26, 1952, Rome, Italy), was a Spanish-American philosopher, essayist, poet, and novelist. A lifelong Spanish citizen, Santayana...

Almudena Grandes
Almudena Grandes
Authors

Almudena Grandes Hernández (Madrid, 7 May 1960) is a Spanish writer. She studied Geography and History at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. She is married to the poet Luis García...

Francisco Umbral
Francisco Umbral
Authors

Francisco "Paco" Umbral was a Spanish journalist, novelist, biographer and essayist. Although he was born in Madrid, a city that...

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