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Pedro Antonio de Alarcón

1833 - 1891

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Pedro Antonio de Alarcón y Ariza (10 March 1833 – 19 July 1891) was a nineteenth-century Spanish novelist, known best for his novel El sombrero de tres picos (1874), an adaptation of popular traditions which provides a description of village life in Alarcón's native region of Andalusia. It was the basis for Hugo Wolf's opera Der Corregidor (1897); for Riccardo Zandonai's opera La farsa amorosa (1933); and Manuel de Falla's ballet The Three-Cornered Hat (1919). Alarcón wrote another popular short novel, El capitán Veneno ('Captain Poison', 1881). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Pedro Antonio de Alarcón has received more than 73,627 page views. His biography is available in 35 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 34 in 2019). Pedro Antonio de Alarcón is the 1,969th most popular writer (up from 1,975th in 2019), the 685th most popular biography from Spain (up from 690th in 2019) and the 72nd most popular Spanish Writer.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 35

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.48

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.88

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Pedro Antonio de Alarcón ranks 1,969 out of 7,302. Before him are Hincmar, Robert Southey, Jean-Louis Guez de Balzac, László Krasznahorkai, Miloš Crnjanski, and Fan Zhongyan. After him are Péter Esterházy, Theodorus Gaza, Shaul Tchernichovsky, Gustave Kahn, Anastasius Sinaita, and Fred Vargas.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1833, Pedro Antonio de Alarcón ranks 27. Before him are Archduke Joseph Karl of Austria, Carola of Vasa, Eduard Taaffe, 11th Viscount Taaffe, Princess Adelheid-Marie of Anhalt-Dessau, Jovan Jovanović Zmaj, and Marko Vovchok. After him are Eliza Lynch, Louis Philippe, Crown Prince of Belgium, Carlos Finlay, Peter Waage, Manuel González Flores, and Alfred Clebsch. Among people deceased in 1891, Pedro Antonio de Alarcón ranks 42. Before him are Princess Vilhelmine Marie of Denmark, Leon Pinsker, Joseph E. Johnston, Théodore de Banville, Fredrik Pacius, and Pierre de Decker. After him are Jean Stas, N. R. Pogson, Aleksander Chodźko, Giovanni Morelli, Carl Nägeli, and Mihail Kogălniceanu.

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In Spain

Among people born in Spain, Pedro Antonio de Alarcón ranks 685 out of 3,355. Before him are Juan Sánchez Cotán (1560), Lucius Licinius Sura (40), Muniadona of Castile (995), Aioulf (400), Gerónimo de Aguilar (1489), and Raphael (1943). After him are Margaret of Navarre (1134), Vicente Martín y Soler (1754), Isidro Lángara (1912), Ángela Molina (1955), Cristóbal de Morales (1600), and Serena (365).

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Among WRITERS In Spain

Among writers born in Spain, Pedro Antonio de Alarcón ranks 72. Before him are Josep Pla (1897), Abbot Oliba (971), Ibn 'Abd al-Barr (978), Luis de León (1527), José de Espronceda (1808), and José Luis de Vilallonga, 9th Marquess of Castellbell (1920). After him are Cristóbal de Morales (1600), Jaume Cabré (1947), Jorge Manrique (1440), Caterina Albert (1869), Mariano José de Larra (1809), and Abu Hamid al-Gharnati (1080).

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