WRITER

Don Juan Manuel

1282 - 1348

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Don Juan Manuel (5 May 1282 – 13 June 1348) was a Spanish medieval writer, nephew of Alfonso X of Castile, son of Manuel of Castile and Beatrice of Savoy. He inherited from his father the great Lordship of Villena, receiving the titles of Lord, Duke and lastly Prince of Villena. He married three times, choosing his wives for political and economic convenience, and worked to match his children with partners associated with royalty. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Don Juan Manuel has received more than 61,446 page views. His biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 28 in 2019). Don Juan Manuel is the 1,472nd most popular writer (down from 1,380th in 2019), the 514th most popular biography from Spain (down from 464th in 2019) and the 50th most popular Spanish Writer.

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  • 61k

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  • 58.63

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  • 29

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.99

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.85

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

El conde Lucanor
General, Moreno Baez, Enrique, Fiction - General
Conde Lucanor, El
El Conde Lucanor
Count Lucanor Or The Fifty Pleasant Stories Of Patronio
El libro de los estados
General, Juan Manuel, Libro de los estados
Conde Lucanor
Antología de la literatura fantástica
Fantasy literature, Fantastic literature, Anachronisms
Contains: Sennin / Ryūnosuke Akutagawa -- A woman alone with her soul / Thomas Bailey Aldrich -- Ben-Tobith / Leonid Andreyev -- Phantom basket / John Aubrey -- Drowned giant / J.G. Ballard -- Enoch Soames / Max Beerbohm -- Tail of the sphinx / Ambrose Bierce -- Squid in its own ink / Adolfo Bioy Casares -- Guilty eyes / Ah'med Ech Chiruani -- Anything you want! ... / Léon Bloy -- [Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL444914W) / Jorge Luis Borges -- Odin / Jorge Luis Borges & Delia Ingenieros -- Golden kite, the silver wind / Ray Bradbury -- Man who collected the first of September, 1973 / Tor Åge Bringsvaerd -- Careless rabbi / Martin Buber -- Tale of the poet / Sir Richard Burton -- Fate is a fool / Arturo Cancela and Pilar de Lusarreta -- An actual authentic ghost / Thomas Carlyle -- Red king's dream / Lewis Carroll -- Tree of pride / G.K. Chesterton -- Tower of Babel / G.K. Chesterton -- Man who knew too much / Cassell -- Dream of the Butterfly / Chuang Tzu -- Llook of death / Jean Cocteau -- House taken over / Julio Cortázar -- Being dust / Santiago Dabove -- A parable of gluttony / Alexandra David-Neel -- Persecution of the master / Alexandra David-Neel -- Idle city / Lord Dunsany -- Tantalia / Macedonio Fernández -- Eternal Life / J.G. Frazer -- A secure home / Elena Garro -- Man who did not believe in miracles / Herbert A. Giles -- Earth's holocaust / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- Ending for a ghost story / I.A. Ireland -- Monkey's paw / W.W. Jacobs -- What Is a ghost? / James Joyce -- May Goulding / James Joyce -- Wizard passed over / Don Juan Manuel -- Josephine the singer, or the mouse folk / Franz Kafka -- Before the law / Franz Kafka -- Return of imray / Rudyard Kipling -- Horses of Abdera / Leopoldo Lugones -- Ceremony / Arthur Machen -- Riddle / Walter de la Mare -- Who knows? / Guy de Maupassant -- Shadow of the players / Edwin Morgan -- Cat / H.A. Murena -- Story of the foxes / Niu Chiao.
El Conde Lucanor
El libro de los estados
General, Juan Manuel, Libro de los estados
El conde Lucanor
Latin American literature, Medieval and modern Latin literature, Social life and customs
En *El conde Lucanor* alcanzan culminación y síntesis las tradiciones cuentísticas del mundo oriental y de los predicadores cristianos. La popularidad obtenida por los exempla incluidos en la primera parte no debe, sin embargo, oscurecer la habilidad con que Don Juan Manuel organiza el conjunto y combina distintos recursos retóricos. La pareja formada por el conde Lucanor y su ayo Patronio traspasa con sorprendente modernidad los borrosos límites que separan la realidad de la fición y entra por derecho propio a formar parte de los personajes famosos de la literatura universal.
Obras completas
Romance literature

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Don Juan Manuel ranks 1,472 out of 7,302Before him are James Oliver Curwood, Christian Friedrich Hebbel, Colin Dexter, August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben, Elizabeth Siddal, and Louis de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon. After him are Francis Jammes, Achilles Tatius, Vita Sackville-West, René Char, Samuel ibn Naghrillah, and Lady Mary Wortley Montagu.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1282, Don Juan Manuel ranks 5Before him are Pope Innocent VI, Louis IV, Holy Roman Emperor, Öz Beg Khan, and Margaret of France, Queen of England. After him are Tode Mongke, Eric Magnusson, Alexios II of Trebizond, Frederick IV, Duke of Lorraine, John XIV of Constantinople, Duwa, and Stefan Konstantin. Among people deceased in 1348, Don Juan Manuel ranks 9Before him are Pietro Lorenzetti, Laura de Noves, Al-Dhahabi, Bernardo Daddi, Giovanni Villani, and Blanche of Valois. After him are Emperor Hanazono, Barlaam of Seminara, Ferrer Bassa, Charles, Duke of Durazzo, Eleanor of Portugal, Queen of Aragon, and Maso di Banco.

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In Spain

Among people born in Spain, Don Juan Manuel ranks 514 out of 3,355Before him are Athanagild (517), Ulpia Marciana (48), Unai Emery (1971), Luis Ramírez de Lucena (1475), Abu'l-Hasan Ali of Granada (1500), and Berengaria of Barcelona (1116). After him are Rafael Moreno Aranzadi (1892), Samuel ibn Naghrillah (993), Hosius of Corduba (256), Infante Carlos of Spain (1607), Ibn al-Khatib (1313), and José Villalonga (1919).

Among WRITERS In Spain

Among writers born in Spain, Don Juan Manuel ranks 50Before him are Arturo Pérez-Reverte (1951), Javier Marías (1951), Ildefonsus (607), Joanot Martorell (1415), Manuel Vázquez Montalbán (1939), and Rafael Alberti (1902). After him are Samuel ibn Naghrillah (993), Ibn al-Khatib (1313), Juan Goytisolo (1931), Ausiàs March (1400), José de Acosta (1540), and Pío Baroja (1872).