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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). He produced four other full-length novels. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Pedro Antonio de Alarcón is the 1,875th most popular writer (up from 1,968th in 2019), the 650th most popular biography from Spain (up from 685th in 2019) and the 68th most popular Spanish Writer.

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Among writers, Pedro Antonio de Alarcón ranks 1,875 out of 7,302. Before him are John Christopher, Richard Ford, Yasmina Reza, Jean-Pierre Thiollet, Miguel Hernández, and Giovanni Battista Guarini. After him are Masaoka Shiki, Zinaida Gippius, Siri Hustvedt, Hugh Lofting, Tonino Guerra, and Tristan Corbière.

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Among people born in 1833, Pedro Antonio de Alarcón ranks 23. Before him are Princess Mary Adelaide of Cambridge, Charles George Gordon, Kido Takayoshi, Carola of Vasa, Archduke Joseph Karl of Austria, and Eduard Taaffe, 11th Viscount Taaffe. After him are Princess Adelheid-Marie of Anhalt-Dessau, Marko Vovchok, Jovan Jovanović Zmaj, Prince Gong, Carlos Finlay, and Eliza Lynch. Among people deceased in 1891, Pedro Antonio de Alarcón ranks 43. Before him are Théodore de Banville, Kalākaua, Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar, Samuel Ajayi Crowther, Princess Vilhelmine Marie of Denmark, and Fredrik Pacius. After him are Mihail Kogălniceanu, Joseph E. Johnston, Hannibal Hamlin, José Manuel Balmaceda, Aleksander Chodźko, and Leon Pinsker.

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In Spain

Among people born in Spain, Pedro Antonio de Alarcón ranks 650 out of 3,355. Before him are Muhammad V of Granada (1339), Ángela Molina (1955), Luis de León (1527), Infante Alfonso, Duke of Calabria (1901), Miguel Hernández (1910), and Jacinto Quincoces (1905). After him are Rosalía Mera (1944), Muhammad III of Granada (1257), Dani Carvajal (1992), Rodri (1996), Juan Antonio Bardem (1922), and Alicia de Larrocha (1923).

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Among WRITERS In Spain

Among writers born in Spain, Pedro Antonio de Alarcón ranks 68. Before him are Mary of Jesus of Ágreda (1602), Abbot Oliba (971), Emilia Pardo Bazán (1851), Alonso de Ercilla (1533), Luis de León (1527), and Miguel Hernández (1910). After him are Jacint Verdaguer (1845), Cristóbal de Morales (1600), Don Juan Manuel (1282), José Zorrilla (1817), Leopoldo Alas (1852), and Juan Goytisolo (1931).

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