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Sobre el autor (1997)
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, born in Alcala de Henares, Spain, in 1547, was the son of a
surgeon. In 1585, a few months after his marriage to Catalina de Salazar, Cervantes published his
first major work as an author, the pastoral novel La Galatea which was poorly received. Cervantes
became a tax collector in Granada in 1594, but was imprisoned in 1597 due to money problems
with the government. Folklore maintains that while in prison, Cervantes wrote his most famous
novel, Don Quixote, which was an immediate success upon publication in 1605. After several years
of writing short novels and plays, Cervantes was spurred to write the sequel to Don Quixote in 1615
when an unauthorized sequel appeared to great acclaim. Don Quixote is considered the defining
Spanish liter