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Juan Valera

Also known as Juan Valera y Alcalá-Galiano

Spanish writer (1824–1905)

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Juan Valera y Alcalá-Galiano was a Spanish writer, diplomat, journalist, and politician born in Cabra on 18 October 1824 and died in Madrid on 18 April 1905. He wrote in Spanish and was a member of the Royal Spanish Academy, the Royal Academy of Moral and Political Sciences, and the Académie des Sciences Morales et Politiques. His notable works include *Azul*, *Poesías de D. José M. de Martorell y Fivaller, Duque de Alemnara, Marqués de Monesterio, Poesías*, *Poesías escogidas*, and *Las ilusiones del doctor Faustino*.

Valera contributed to the creative work *La Ilustración Española y Americana* and received the Order of Saint Januarius. His writings are held in the collection of the Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes. He is described in sources such as the *Nordisk familjebok*, the *Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary*, and the *New International Encyclopedia*.

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Person · Open Library

Born: 18 Oct 1824
Died: 18 Apr 1905
Works: 139

Top works

Azul
Poesías de D. José M. de Martorell y Fivaller, Duque de Alemnara, Marqués de Monesterio
Discursos leídos ante la Real Academia de Ciencias Morales y Políticas en la recepción pública del Excmo. Sr. D. Juan Valera, el día de diciembre de 1904
Poesías
Poesías escogidas

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Wikidata facts

Instance of: human
Given name: Juan
Gender: male
Citizenship: Spain
Place of birth: Cabra
Place of death: Madrid
Occupation: novelist
Languages spoken: Spanish
Native language: Spanish
Image: Juan Valera.jpg

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date of birth: 1824-10-18
date of death: 1905-04-18
member of: Académie des Sciences Morales et Politiques
described by source: New International Encyclopedia
Commons category: Juan Valera
Commons gallery: Juan Valera y Alcala Galiano
name in native language: Juan Valera y Alcalá-Galiano
ethnic group: Spaniards
Commons Creator page: Juan Valera
writing language: Spanish
has works in the collection: Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes

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Works in European collections

36 objects attributed to Juan Valera, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana

The Cordovan

Tales and fables, by D. Juan Eugenio Hartzenbusch, volumes I and II

On the discourse about the Spanish religious drama, before and after Lope de Vega, written by D. Manuel Cañete, individual of the Royal Spanish Academy, etc.

To the Excellent Lord Don Antonio Cánovas del Castillo

El último pecado

On the Baltasar de la Avellaneda

Quien no te conozca que te compre

De la protección de los gobiernos a la literatura dramática

[Letter from Juan Valera to Benito Pérez Galdós (June 4, 1901)]

[Letter from Juan Valera to Benito Pérez Galdós (Undated)]

Written speech by order of the Royal Spanish Academy to commemorate the third centenary of the publication of El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha read by the Hon. Dr. D. Alejandro Pidal y Mon in the session held on May 8, 1905 presided over by S. M. the King [Printed Text]

Apuntes sobre el nuevo arte de escribir novelas : crítica literaria : (1886-1887)

Cartas de Juan Valera a Francisco A. Barbieri [Manuscrito]

Dafnis y Cloe ; Leyendas del antiguo oriente : fragmentos : novelas

Pepita Jiménez

Critical Studies on Philosophy and Religion

Letters of several writers to D. Francisco de Borja Pavón, chronicler who was from Córdoba, and minutes or autographs of many of those directed by him to them.