Pedro Antonio de Alarcón

Pedro Antonio de Alarcón was born in 1833 in Guadix, into a modest family of hidalgos. He abandoned law, then the seminary, for journalism: he founded a newspaper in Cádiz, then in Madrid a satirical periodical hostile to the monarchy. A soldier and journalist during the African War of 1859, he drew from it an account that made his reputation. Having moved from liberalism to conservatism, he was a deputy, senator and councillor of state, and entered the Real Academia Española in 1877. Around 1887 he stopped writing. He died in Madrid in 1891.

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