Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra was a Spanish writer widely regarded as the greatest writer in the Spanish language and one of the world's pre-eminent novelists. He is best known for his two-part novel Don Quixote, a work considered to be the first modern novel. Don Quixote has been labelled by many well-known authors as the "best book of all time" and the "best and most central work in world literature".
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- Born in
- Alcalá de Henares
- Educated at
- University of SalamancaEstudio de la Villa
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1547
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