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{{short description|Nineteenth-century Spanish novelist}}
{{Expand Spanish|topic=bio|date=July 2010|Pedro Antonio de Alarcón}}
{{family name hatnote|De Alarcón|Ariza|lang=Spanish}}
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| name          = Pedro Antonio de Alarcón
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| caption       = Portrait published 1898 <!-- frontispiece of Scribner's anthology Stories by Foreign Authors -->
| birth_name    = Pedro Antonio de Alarcón y Ariza
| birth_date    = {{Birth date|1833|03|10|df=y}}
| birth_place   = [[Guadix]], Spain 
| death_date    = {{Death date and age|1891|07|19|1833|03|10|df=y}}
| death_place   = [[Madrid]], Spain
 | resting_place = [[Cementerio de San Justo]]
| occupation    = Novelist
| language      = Spanish
| nationality   = Spanish
| movement     = [[Literary realism]]
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| office        = Seat ''H'' of the [[Real Academia Española]]
| term_start    = 25 February 1877
| term_end      = 19 July 1891
| predecessor   = {{ill|Fermín de la Puente y Apezechea|es}}
| successor     = [[Francisco Asenjo Barbieri]]
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'''Pedro Antonio de Alarcón y Ariza''' (10 March 1833{{spaced ndash}}19 July 1891) was a nineteenth-century [[Spanish people|Spanish]] novelist, known best for his novel ''[[The Three-Cornered Hat (novel)|El sombrero de tres picos]]'' (1874), an adaptation of popular traditions which provides a description of village life in Alarcón's native region of [[Andalusia]]. It was the basis for [[Hugo Wolf]]'s opera ''[[Der Corregidor]]'' (1897); for [[Riccardo Zandonai]]'s opera ''[[La farsa amorosa]]'' (1933); and [[Manuel de Falla]]'s ballet ''[[The Three-Cornered Hat]]'' (1919).

Alarcón wrote another popular short novel, ''{{interlanguage link|El capitán Veneno|es|El Capitán Veneno (novela)}}'' ('Captain Poison', 1881). He produced four other full-length novels. One of these novels, ''[[The Scandal (novel)|El escándalo]]'' ('The Scandal', 1875), became noted for its keen psychological insights.  Alarcón also wrote three travel books and many short stories and essays.<ref>{{cite web|title=Pedro Antonio de Alarcón - letra H|url=https://www.rae.es/academico/pedro-antonio-de-alarcon|website=[[Real Academia Española]]|access-date=27 May 2023|language=es}}</ref>

Alarcón was born in [[Guadix]], near [[Granada]]. In 1859, he served in the [[Hispano-Moroccan War (1859–1860)|Hispano-Moroccan War]]. He gained his first literary recognition with ''{{interlanguage link|Diary of a Witness to the African War|es|Diario de un testigo de la guerra de África}}'', a patriotic account of the campaign.

==Works==
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* ''Cuentos amatorios''.
* ''El final de Norma: novela'' (1855).
* ''Descubrimiento y paso del cabo de Buena Esperanza'' (1857).
* ''Diario de un testigo de la Guerra de África'' (1859).
* ''De Madrid a Nápoles'' (1860).
* ''Dos ángeles caídos y otros escritos olvidados.''
* ''[[Death's Friend|El amigo de la muerte: cuento fantástico]]'' (1852).
* ''El año en Spitzberg.''
* ''El capitán Veneno: novela.''
* ''El clavo.''
* ''El coro de Angeles'' (1858).
* ''La Alpujarra'' (1873).
* ''[[The Three-Cornered Hat (novel)|El sombrero de tres picos]]'': novela corta (1874).
* ''[[The Scandal (novel)|El escándalo]]'' (1875)
* ''El extranjero''.
* ''El niño de la Bola'' (1880).
* ''Historietas nacionales.''
* ''Juicios literarios y artísticos.''
* ''La Alpujarra: sesenta leguas a caballo precedidas de seis en diligenc''ia.
* ''La Comendadora.''
* ''La mujer alta: cuento de miedo.''
* ''La pródiga''.
* ''Lo que se oye desde una silla del Prado.''
* ''Los ojos negros.''
* ''Los seis velos.''
* ''Moros y cristianos.''
* ''Narraciones inverosímiles.''
* ''Obras literarias de Pedro Antonio de Alarcón. Volumen 2''
* ''Obras literarias de Pedro Antonio de Alarcón. Volumen 1''
* ''Obras literarias de Pedro Antonio de Alarcón. Volumen 3''
* ''Poesías serias y humorísticas''
* ''Soy, tengo y quiero.''
* ''Viajes por España.'' 
* ''Últimos escritos.''
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==References==
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*[[World Book]] encyclopedia 1988

==External links==
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* {{Gutenberg author |id=6108| name=Pedro Antonio de Alarcón}}
* {{Internet Archive author |sname=Pedro Antonio de Alarcón |sopt=w}} 
* {{Librivox author |id=466}}
* [http://www.polyglotproject.com/books/Spanish/las_dos_glorias Las Dos Glorias] in Spanish with English translation
* {{LCAuth|n79032858|Pedro Antonio de Alarcón|186|ue}}

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[[Category:1833 births]]
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[[Category:People from Guadix]]
[[Category:19th-century Spanish novelists]]
[[Category:Spanish male novelists]]
[[Category:Spanish humorists]]
[[Category:Members of the Royal Spanish Academy]]
[[Category:19th-century Spanish male writers]]
[[Category:19th-century travel writers]]
[[Category:Spanish travel writers]]


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