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Cervantes

Miguel de , full surname Cervantes Saavedra. 1547--1616, Spanish dramatist, poet, and prose writer, most famous for Don Quixote (1605), which satirizes the chivalric romances and greatly influenced the development of the novel
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This date also honors Miguel de Cervantes and William Shakespeare who both died on April 23, 1616.
La biografia en si se inicia en el tercer capitulo--titulado "Miguel de Cervantes, estudiante (1547-68)"--y se remonta al abuelo del escritor, el licenciado Juan de Cervantes.
Miguel de Cervantes was a Spanish novelist, poet and playwright whose masterpiece, "Don Quixote," is known as a classic of Western literature.
Washington, Apr 29 ( ANI ): The search for the remains of 'Don Quixote' author Miguel de Cervantes is set to begin and should the search succeed, it will be known by the year's end.
Widely considered the most popular Spanish-language writer since Miguel de Cervantes in the 17th century, Garcia Marquez achieved literary celebrity which spawned comparisons to Mark Twain and Charles Dickens.
This adaptation of Miguel De Cervantes' novel Don Quixote is performed by Hijinx Theatre as part of the Unity Festival.
PU VC Prof Dr Mujahid Kamran told here Sunday that the connection between April 23 and books was first made in 1923 by booksellers in Spain as a way to honour the author Miguel de Cervantes, who died on that day.
The volume focuses on three novels that deal with imagined scenes in Spanish history Colossus, The Memoirs of Christopher Columbus, and The Death and Life of Miguel de Cervantes and provides in-depth comparative and narrative analysis examining Marlowe's historiographical affects through the lens of chaos theory.
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