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Leopoldo Alas

Leopoldo Alas
Leopoldo Alas, Spanish author, critic, and academic (d. 1901)

Leopoldo Enrique García-Alas y Ureña, also known as Clarín, was a Spanish realist novelist born in Zamora. His inflammatory articles, known as paliques (“chitchat”), as well as his advocacy of liberalism and anti-clericalism, made him a formidable and controversial critical voice. He died in Oviedo.

25 April 1851

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