Pedro Antonio de Alarcón

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Pedro Antonio de Alarcón
Portrait published 1898
Born	Pedro Antonio de Alarcón y Ariza (1833-03-10)10 March 1833 Guadix, Spain
Died	19 July 1891(1891-07-19) (aged 58) Madrid, Spain
Resting place	Cementerio de San Justo
Occupation	Novelist
Language	Spanish
Nationality	Spanish
Literary movement	Literary realism
Seat H of the Real Academia Española
In office 25 February 1877 – 19 July 1891
Preceded by	Fermín de la Puente y Apezechea [es]
Succeeded by	Francisco Asenjo Barbieri

Pedro Antonio de Alarcón y Ariza (10 March 1833 – 19 July 1891) was a nineteenth-century Spanish novelist, known best for his novel El sombrero de tres picos (1874), an adaptation of popular traditions which provides a description of village life in Alarcón's native region of Andalusia. It was the basis for Hugo Wolf's opera Der Corregidor (1897); for Riccardo Zandonai's opera La farsa amorosa (1933); and Manuel de Falla's ballet The Three-Cornered Hat (1919).

Alarcón wrote another popular short novel, El capitán Veneno [es] ('Captain Poison', 1881). He produced four other full-length novels. One of these novels, El escándalo ('The Scandal', 1875), became noted for its keen psychological insights. Alarcón also wrote three travel books and many short stories and essays.

Alarcón was born in Guadix, near Granada. In 1859, he served in a Spanish military operation in Morocco. He gained his first literary recognition with Diary of a Witness to the African War (1859–1860) [es], a patriotic account of the campaign.

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References

• World Book encyclopedia 1988

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• Works by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón at Project Gutenberg
• Works by or about Pedro Antonio de Alarcón at Internet Archive
• Works by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)
• Las Dos Glorias in Spanish with English translation
• Pedro Antonio de Alarcón at Library of Congress, with 186 library catalogue records

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