Armando Palacio Valdés

Armando Palacio Valdés was born in 1853 in Entralgo, in Asturias, the son of a lawyer. At the secondary school in Oviedo he became friends with Leopoldo Alas, then studied law in Madrid and edited the Revista Europea, in which his first critical essays appeared. He published his first novel in 1881 and became, with Blasco Ibáñez, one of the most widely read Spanish novelists abroad, translated into English, French and many other languages. Elected to the Real Academia Española in 1906, he died in 1938.

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• NovelSister Saint SulpiceLa hermana San SulpicioArmando Palacio Valdés · 1889Literature