Benito Pérez Galdós

Benito Pérez Galdós was born in 1843 in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, the tenth and last child of an army officer. He came to Madrid in 1862 to study law, which he did not complete, frequented the Ateneo and began working in the press. He published thirty-one major novels, forty-six historical novels in five series and twenty-three plays. A deputy from 1886, he moved from liberalism to republicanism, then to socialism. Proposed for the Nobel Prize from 1912, he met with the hostility of traditionalist Catholics. Having gone blind, he died in Madrid in 1920.

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• NovelFortunata and JacintaFortunata y JacintaBenito Pérez Galdós · 1886LiteraturePublic domain