I'd have to say Shakespeare for two reasons. First, although Spanish is one of the most common languages on the planet (400 million native speakers worldwide), English (1.5 billion) has it beaten by a wide margin. read more
I’d have to say Shakespeare for two reasons. First, although Spanish is one of the most common languages on the planet (400 million native speakers worldwide), English (1.5 billion) has it beaten by a wide margin. read more
Cervantes invented the modern novel. Photo: Wikimedia/Brucker.G Meiners. While William Shakespeare was clearly more prolific, writing at least 38 plays and over 150 short and long poems, there was more to Cervantes than just Don Quixote. read more
Miguel de Cervantes's famous work, Don Quijote, illustrated by Doré Another Don Quijote illustration by Gustave Doré; this one is of the famous windmill scene In Esquivias, Toledo, on 12 December 1584, he married the much younger Catalina de Salazar y Palacios (born Esquivias – d. 31 October 1626), daughter of Fernando de Salazar y Vozmediano and Catalina de Palacios. read more