Miguel de Cervantes
Don Quixote (1605)
Often called the first modern novel. Spanish is nicknamed 'la lengua de Cervantes'.
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Arte y Literatura
Art and literature
From Cervantes to García Márquez, Velázquez to Frida Kahlo — five centuries of genius in one language.
Gabriel García Márquez
Cien años de soledad
Colombian Nobel laureate who made magical realism world-famous.
Frida Kahlo
Mexican painter
Self-portraits of pain, identity and colour, painted in Coyoacán's Casa Azul.
Diego Velázquez
Las Meninas (1656)
A painting about looking — still debated at the Prado in Madrid.
Pablo Neruda
Veinte poemas de amor
Chilean poet; his love poems are still recited from memory across Latin America.
Isabel Allende
La casa de los espíritus
The most widely read living Spanish-language author.
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