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Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, novelista español, poeta y dramaturgo (* 29 de septiembre de 1547 – † 23 de abril de 1616), es considerado la máxima figura de la literatura española. Es universalmente conocido, sobre todo, por haber escrito El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha, que muchos críticos describen como la primera novela moderna y una de las mejores obras de la literatura universal. Se le ha dado el sobrenombre de Príncipe de los Ingenios.

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Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (September 29, 1547 – April 23, 1616), was a Spanish novelist, poet and playwright. He is best known for his novel Don Quijote de la Mancha, which is considered by many to be the first modern novel, one of the greatest works in Western literature, and the greatest of the Spanish language. It is one of the Encyclopedia Britannica’s “Great Books of the Western World” and the Russian author Fyodor Dostoyevsky called it “the ultimate and most sublime word of human thinking”. Israel Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion learned the Spanish language so that he could read it in the original, considering it a prerequisite to becoming an effective statesman.