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A notable author was Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, famous for his masterpiece Don Quixote de la Mancha. In this novel Cervantes consolidated the form of literature that the picaresque novel had established in Spain to a fictional narrative that became the template for many novelists throughout the history of Spanish literature. [2]
The Spanish Golden Age (Spanish: Siglo de Oro Spanish pronunciation: [ˈsiɣlo ðe ˈoɾo], "Golden Century") was a period that coincided with the political rise of the Spanish Empire under the Catholic Monarchs of Spain and the Spanish Habsburgs. This era saw a flourishing of literature and the arts in Spain. The most significant patron of ...
The Spanish Renaissance. [edit] Classically, 1492 is spoken of as the beginning of the Renaissance in Spain; nevertheless it is complex to consider a date, due to the multiple circumstances that happened. The situation of Spain was always very complex but even so the humanism managed to maintain its innovating characteristics, in spite of the ...
Bárbara de Santo Domingo (1842–1872), Catholic mystic writer. Elia Barceló (born 1957), writer. Juan Barcia Caballero (1852–1926), Spanish physician and writer. Pío Baroja (1872–1956), novelist of the Generation of '98. Pedro Barrantes (1850–1912), writer, journalist. Joaquín Bastús (1799–1873), writer and pedagogue.
Works from don Francisco de Quevedo Villegas, 1699. Spanish Baroque literature is the literature written in Spain during the Baroque, which occurred during the 17th century in which prose writers such as Baltasar Gracián and Francisco de Quevedo, playwrights such as Lope de Vega, Tirso de Molina, Calderón de la Barca and Juan Ruiz de Alarcón, or the poetic production of the aforementioned ...
The Spanish Renaissance was a movement in Spain, emerging from the Italian Renaissance in Italy during the 14th century, that spread to Spain during the 15th and 16th centuries. [1] This new focus in art, literature, quotes and science inspired by the Greco-Roman tradition of Classical antiquity, received a major impulse from several events in ...
Jacinto Benavente. Literature. "for the happy manner in which he has continued the illustrious traditions of the Spanish drama". 1956. Juan Ramón Jiménez. Literature. "for his lyrical poetry, which in Spanish language constitutes an example of high spirit and artistical purity". 1959. Severo Ochoa.
Javier Campos (born 1947) Oscar Hahn (born 1938) Vicente Huidobro (1893–1948) Víctor Jara (1932–1973) Enrique Lihn (1929–1988) Patricio Manns (1937–2021) Carmen Marai - born Carmen María Bassa. Gabriela Mistral - born Lucila Godoy, (1889–1957) Nobel laureate in 1945. Pablo Neruda - born Neftalí Ricardo Reyes, (1904–1973) Nobel ...