Benito Pérez Galdós, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Benito Pérez Galdós

Spanish painter and author and novelist

Date of Birth: 10-May-1843

Place of Birth: Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Canary Islands, Spain

Date of Death: 04-Jan-1920

Profession: screenwriter, writer, poet, politician, playwright, journalist, novelist

Nationality: Spain

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

Benito Pérez Galdós (May 10, 1843 – January 4, 1920) was a Spanish realist novelist.
Some authorities consider him second only to Cervantes in stature as a Spanish novelist.
He was the leading literary figure in 19th-century Spain. Galdós was a prolific writer, publishing 31 novels, 46 Episodios Nacionales (National Episodes), 23 plays, and the equivalent of 20 volumes of shorter fiction, journalism and other writings.
He remains popular in Spain, and is considered as equal to Dickens, Balzac and Tolstoy.
As recently as 1950, few of Galdós's works were available translated to English, although he has slowly become popular in the Anglophone world. While his plays are generally considered to be less successful than his novels, Realidad (1892) is important in the history of realism in the Spanish theatre. The Galdós museum in Las Palmas, Gran Canaria, features a portrait of the writer by Joaquín Sorolla.



Alternative names	Paul Audouard, Pau Adouard, Pablo Audouard, Pablo Adouard
Description	Spanish photographer
Date of birth/death	1856	1918
Location of birth/death	La Havana	Barcelona
Work location	Barcelona
Authority control	: Q3026181 VIAF: 87923932 ISNI: 0000 0000 5988 3574 LCCN: no2013105343 BNF: 16921334b BNE: XX949607 WorldCat