Miguel de Cervantes

Miguel de Cervantes (1547–1616) is the greatest figure in Spanish literature. His life was as adventurous as his fiction: he was a soldier who lost the use of his left hand in the Battle of Lepanto, was captured by pirates, and spent five years as a slave in Algiers before returning to Spain. This author hub collects 1 work in the Canon Compass ranking, led by Don Quixote.