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Benito Pérez Galdós
Benito María de los Dolores Pérez Galdós was a Spanish realist novelist and politician. He was a leading literary figure in 19th-century Spain, and some scholars consider him second only to Miguel de Cervantes in stature as a Spanish novelist.
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culture · Spanish realist novelist (1843–1920) · writer · playwright · politician · novelist · journalist · poet · also Benito Pérez Galdós, Galdós, Benito
Born 10 May 1843 · Died 4 January 1920 · Q189869
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2026· 4 entries
Yahoo Noticias en Español: Hace más de un siglo, Benito Pérez Galdós subió la violencia contra la mujer al escenario
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ABC: Benito Pérez Galdós, dos tardes y quinientas noches
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Moviefone: Benito Pérez Galdós
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2023· 1 entry
The Conversation: Las revolucionarias mujeres del teatro de Benito Pérez Galdós
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2018· 2 entries
JSTOR Daily: The Structure of Realism: The Novelas Contemporáneas of Benito Pérez Galdós
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Sri Lankan director Bennett Rathnayke directed the film adaptation Nela
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1972· 1 entry
By Rafael Gil; El Abuelo (1998) (The Grandfather), by José Luis Garci, was internationally released a year later; it had previously been adapted as the Argentine film El Abuelo (1954)
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1954· 1 entry
By the cabildo de Gran Canaria, and inaugurated on 9 July 1960 by María Pérez Galdós Cobián, the writer's daughter
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1934· 1 entry
33 years later, a revival in Madrid produced much the same degree of uproar and outrage
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1920· 2 entries
Died 1920-01-04.
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“Asusta pensar que acaso las admiraciones más sinceras que tenemos son las de las personas que no nos han comprendido”
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1918· 1 entry
Joined in a protest with Miguel de Unamuno and Mariano de Cavia against the encroaching censorship and authoritarianism coming from the monarch
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1916· 1 entry
With the money raised being less than half of what was required to clear his debts
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1914· 2 entries
Pérez Galdós was elected as republican deputy for Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
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Career landmark: member of the Congress of Deputies (1914–1916).
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1912· 1 entry
But his opposition to religious authorities led him to be boycotted by conservative sectors of Spanish society, and traditionalist Catholics, who did not recognize his literary merit
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1909· 1 entry
Together with Pablo Iglesias, he led the Republican–Socialist Conjunction, although Pérez Galdós, who "did not feel himself a politician", soon withdrew from the struggles "for the minutes and the farce" and turned his a
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1907· 1 entry
Career landmark: member of the Congress of Deputies (1907–1914).
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1902· 1 entry
Awarded Grand cross of the Civil Order of Alfonso XII (1902).
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1901· 1 entry
His play Electra caused a storm of outrage and floods of equally hyperbolic enthusiasm
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1897· 2 entries
Career landmark: Member of the Royal Spanish Academy (1897–1920).
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Pérez Galdós was elected to the Real Academia Española (Royal Spanish Academy)
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1886· 3 entries
The Prime Minister Práxedes Mateo Sagasta appointed him as the (absent) deputy for the town and district of Guayama, Puerto Rico at the Madrid parliament; he never visited the place, but had a representative inform him o
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Became a deputy for Guayama, Puerto Rico
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Career landmark: member of the Congress of Deputies (1886–1890).
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1870· 1 entry
Pérez Galdós was appointed editor of La Revista de España and began to express his opinions on a wide range of topics from history and culture, to politics and literature
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1868· 1 entry
Pérez Galdós' translation of Pickwick Papers introduced Dickens' work to the Spanish public
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1862· 1 entry
After completing his secondary studies, he travelled to Tenerife to obtain his certificate in bachillerato in arts
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1843· 1 entry
Born 1843-05-10.
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