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Miguel de Cervantes
He is easily the most recognized and influential Spanish author in the world. It has been compared on several occasions with William Shakespeare. He is considered as the father of the novel and modern narrative for his polyphonic creation "The ingenious hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha" (1605). The second part was published in 1615. It is considered, according to some votes "the best literary work ever written" and one of the most influential works of Literature. Fyodor Dostoevsky and Lev Tolstoy went on to say that it was his favorite novel and has influenced countless international writers such as: Ruben Dario, Jorge Luis Borges, Charles Dickens, Gustave Faulbert, Herman Melville, Mark Twain or Franz Kafka among many others .