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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 68,550 page views. His biography is available in 34 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 31 in 2019). Pedro Antonio de Alarcón is the 1,981st most popular writer (up from 2,065th in 2019), the 690th most popular biography from Spain (down from 677th in 2019) and the 78th most popular Spanish Writer.

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  • 34

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.82

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.94

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Pedro Antonio de Alarcón ranks 1,981 out of 5,755. Before him are Isaeus, Arkady Gaidar, Ivan Mažuranić, Carl Sandburg, William Auld, and Isaac the Blind. After him are Arsen Kotsoyev, Paul Morand, Tin Ujević, Feng Menglong, Albert Memmi, and Nicolás Guillén.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1833, Pedro Antonio de Alarcón ranks 25. Before him are Prince Gong, Archduke Joseph Karl of Austria, Princess Adelheid-Marie of Anhalt-Dessau, Eduard Taaffe, 11th Viscount Taaffe, Jonas Lie, and Louis Philippe, Crown Prince of Belgium. After him are Eliza Lynch, Jovan Jovanović Zmaj, Marko Vovchok, Alfred Clebsch, Carlos Finlay, and Eugen Langen. Among people deceased in 1891, Pedro Antonio de Alarcón ranks 39. Before him are Kalākaua, Joseph Petzval, Princess Vilhelmine Marie of Denmark, Louis Lucien Bonaparte, Théodore de Banville, and N. R. Pogson. After him are Fredrik Pacius, Mihail Kogălniceanu, Joseph E. Johnston, Giovanni Morelli, Leon Pinsker, and Prince Baudouin of Belgium.

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In Spain

Among people born in Spain, Pedro Antonio de Alarcón ranks 690 out of 2,932. Before him are Adelardo Rodríguez (1939), Pedro Alonso (1971), Tiberius Sempronius Longus (-250), Isabella Colbran (1785), Luisa de Guzmán (1613), and Ferrer Bassa (1285). After him are Sisenand (605), Estanislao Figueras (1819), Infanta María Teresa of Spain (1882), Eduardo Mendoza Garriga (1943), Luis Ocaña (1945), and Rosalía Mera (1944).

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Among WRITERS In Spain

Among writers born in Spain, Pedro Antonio de Alarcón ranks 78. Before him are Caterina Albert (1869), Fernando de Rojas (1470), Abu Hamid al-Gharnati (1080), Jaume Cabré (1947), Mariano José de Larra (1809), and Ramón Sampedro (1943). After him are Eduardo Mendoza Garriga (1943), Ramón Gómez de la Serna (1888), Ana María Matute (1925), Miguel Delibes (1920), José Zorrilla (1817), and Abraham ibn Daud (1110).

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