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Miguel de Cervantes
AuthorBooks · Second hand1547-1616
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (Alcalá de Henares, 1547 — Madrid, 1616) is the most iconic writer of Spanish literature and a cornerstone of world literature. A novelist, poet, playwright and soldier, he led an adventurous life before writing 'Don Quixote of La Mancha', regarded as the first modern novel and one of the most translated works in history.
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Birth
1547
Death
1616
First book
1585
Years writing
441
He lost the use of his left hand at the Battle of Lepanto (1571), which earned him the nickname 'the one-handed man of Lepanto'.
He spent five years as a slave in Algiers (1575-1580) after his galley was captured by Barbary pirates.
He published the first part of Don Quixote in 1605, when he was already 57 — an unusually late breakthrough for the period.
The second part of Don Quixote (1615) was written as a direct response to the apocryphal sequel by Avellaneda, published one year earlier.
He died in the same year as William Shakespeare; April 23rd is celebrated as World Book Day in honour of both writers.
He worked as a tax collector in Andalusia and was imprisoned more than once over accounting irregularities.