WRITER

Miguel de Cervantes

1547 - 1616

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Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra ( sur-VAN-teez, -⁠tiz; Spanish: [miˈɣel de θeɾˈβantes saaˈβeðɾa]; 29 September 1547 (assumed) – 22 April 1616 NS) was a Spanish writer widely regarded as the greatest writer in the Spanish language and one of the world's pre-eminent novelists. He is best known for his novel Don Quixote, a work considered as the first modern novel. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Miguel de Cervantes has received more than 4,311,712 page views. His biography is available in 174 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 170 in 2019). Miguel de Cervantes is the 15th most popular writer (up from 17th in 2019), the 3rd most popular biography from Spain and the most popular Spanish Writer.

Miguel de Cervantes is most famous for his novel, Don Quixote.

Memorability Metrics

  • 4.3M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 85.17

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 174

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 11.77

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.77

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Viaje del Parnaso
Spanish literature, History and criticism, Spanish Authors
1784
La gitanilla
Textbooks for foreign speakers, Readers, Fiction
1924
El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha
Literatura picaresca, España, Readers
Don Quijote de la Mancha es una novela escrita por el español Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. Publicada su primera parte con el título de El ingenioso hidalgo don Quixote de la Mancha a comienzos de 1605, es una de las obras más destacadas de la literatura española y la literatura universal, y una de las más traducidas. En 1615 aparecería la segunda parte del Quijote de Cervantes con el título de El ingenioso caballero don Quixote de la Mancha. Don Quijote fue la primera obra auténticamente anti-romance, gracias a su forma que desmitifica la tradición caballeresca y cortés. Representa la primera obra literaria que se puede clasificar como novela moderna y también la primera novela polifónica, y como tal, ejerció un influjo abrumador en toda la narrativa europea posterior.
1600
La Galatea
Spanish poetry, Spanish fiction
A pastoral poem wrote by Spain's most famous writter.
1611
Novelas ejemplares
Readers, Spanish language, Spanish fiction
Even more popular in their day than Don Quixote, Cervantes's Exemplary Stories (1613) blend picaresque narrative, comic irony, moral ambiguity, and sheer mirth. A nobleman undergoes a change of identity to prove his love for a mere gypsy girl; two young delinquents discover a guild of criminals which models itself on a religious brotherhood; a jealous old man imprisons his child-bride in a house which conjures up both convent and seraglio; a law graduate goes mad and believes he is made of glass, and most fantastically, talking dogs philosophize on the foibles of human society in a ward full of syphilitics. By combining the extraordinary and the ordinary, the Exemplary Stories chart new novelistic territory and demonstrate Cervantes at his most imaginative and innovative. This new translation captures the full vigor of Cervantes's wit and make available two rarely printed gems, "The Illustrious Kitchen Maid" and "The Power of Blood." - Publisher.
1626
Entremeses
Entremés
1893

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Miguel de Cervantes ranks 15 out of 7,302. Before him are Voltaire, Hans Christian Andersen, Leo Tolstoy, Victor Hugo, Sophocles, and Franz Kafka. After him are Jules Verne, Virgil, Albert Camus, Molière, Anton Chekhov, and Petrarch.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1547, Miguel de Cervantes ranks 1. After him are John of Austria, Justus Lipsius, Stanisław Żółkiewski, Joanna of Austria, Grand Duchess of Tuscany, Claude of France, Johan van Oldenbarnevelt, Philipp Ludwig, Count Palatine of Neuburg, Oichi, Mateo Alemán, Sanada Masayuki, and Rudolph Goclenius. Among people deceased in 1616, Miguel de Cervantes ranks 2. Before him is William Shakespeare. After him are Tokugawa Ieyasu, Vincenzo Scamozzi, Inca Garcilaso de la Vega, Maria Anna of Bavaria, Jacob Le Maire, Andreas Libavius, John Adolf, Duke of Holstein-Gottorp, Simeon Bekbulatovich, Magdalene of Brandenburg, and Agnes Hedwig of Anhalt.

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In Spain

Among people born in Spain, Miguel de Cervantes ranks 3 out of 3,355. Before him are Pablo Picasso (1881), and Salvador Dalí (1904). After him are Antoni Gaudí (1852), Francisco Goya (1746), Seneca the Younger (-4), Averroes (1126), Francisco Franco (1892), Diego Velázquez (1599), Trajan (53), Philip II of Spain (1527), and Hernán Cortés (1485).

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Among WRITERS In Spain

Among writers born in Spain, Miguel de Cervantes ranks 1. After him are Federico García Lorca (1898), Joan Fuster (1922), Lope de Vega (1562), Quintilian (35), Pedro Calderón de la Barca (1600), Bartolomé de las Casas (1484), Alfonso X of Castile (1221), Lucan (39), Seneca the Elder (-54), Martial (40), and Juan Ramón Jiménez (1881).

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