Who is the most translated Spanish author? The ranking of the Cervantes Institute
Historically the father of Spanish literature is Miguel Cervantes Saavedraauthor of the famous “Don Quixote of La Mancha” (from the original The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quijote of La Mancha).
The ranking of the most translated Spanish-language authors however it is very different and holds a surprise right on the writer who dominates the list.
Let’s talk about Gabriel García MárquezColombian-born Mexican writer and journalist, and prize Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982known to the general public for the masterpiece “One Hundred Years of Solitude”.
The author he beat all other Spanish-language writersincluded Cervantes, on the contrary, he slipped to fifth position. Before him are: the Chilean author Isabelle Allende in second place, the Argentine Jorge Luis Borges and the Peruvian Mario Vargas Llosa, also a Nobel Prize winner in 2010.
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