List of the best Spanish authors, including familiar names of novelists, poets and authors of nonfiction work that have come from Spain or have an involvement in Spanish-language writing. The list includes the author the literary work Don Quixote, Miguel de Cervantes, along with young adult fiction writer, Carlos Ruiz Zafron and many other Spanish authors.
The list will be votable to determine, "who is the best Spanish author?" as well as having the ability to add to the list of the top 30, if your favorite Spanish author does not already appear on the list.
The best Spanish authors do not have to be the most popular ones, and adding a few obscure names to the list can give those authors more exposure and more recognition for the work they may not be yet known for.
The list includes the author's name along with some of their best known works.
- 1Don Quixote, La Galatea, Novela ejemplares
- 2Blood Wedding, Yerma, The Butterfly's Evil Spell
- 3El Buscon, Dreams and Discourses
- 4The Two Lovers of Heaven, Love is No Laughing Matter, Calderon Plays
- 5Rhymes and Legends
- 6Mist, Tragic Sense of Life, Abel Sanchez: The History of a Passion
- 7The Complete Perfectionist, Invisible Reality, Diary of a Newlywed Poet
- 8Campos de Castilla, There is No Road, Landscape of Soria
- 9The Family of Pascual Duarte, The Hive, Boxwood
- 10The Dog in the Manger, Fuenteovejuna
- 11Fortunata y Jacinta, Dona Perfecta, Marianela
- 12The Infatuations, A Heart So White, Dark Back of Time
- 13The Time of the Hero, The Feast of the Goat, The Green House
- 14The Revolt of the Masses, What is Philosophy?, Meditations on Hunting
- 15The Club Dumas, The Flanders Panel, Seville Communion
- 16Celebration in the Northwest, School of the Sun, Fireflies
- 17
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
The Prince of Mist, The Midnight Palacem The Watcher in the Shadows - 18The Bonds of Interest, His Widow's Husband: A Comedy
- 19Montano, Bartleby & Co
- 20mar sem fim, Ecologia e território, rosto e as máscaras
- 21The Nun and Other Stories, The Three Cornered Hat, First Love and Other
- 22A MAnuscript of Ashes, In Her Absence, Sepharad
- 23A Light Comedy, No Word from Gurb, Matador M
- 24Shadow of Paradise, Destruction or Love
- 25The Madmen Divine, El gran Galeoto
- 26
Ildefonso Falcones
Cathedral of the Sea - 27The delta function =
- 28
Félix José Palma Macías
The Map of Time, The Map of the Sky - 29
Soledad Puertolas
El bandido doblemente armado, Queda la noche, La vida oculta - 30The Enormity of the Tragedy, O'Clock
- 31Tuareg: The Desert Warrior, Black Arrow, El perro
- 32Yellow Rain
- 33El estrangulador, Tres novelas ejemplares, Manuel Vázquez Montalbán
