Ángel Ganivet
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Ángel Ganivet García is a country and member state of the European Union located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula...
– 1898 in Riga
Riga
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), Spanish
Spanish people
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writer
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and diplomat
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. He was considered a precursor to the Generation of '98
Generation of '98
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Some of his works
- Granada la bella. (1896) (Granada the Beautiful)
- Idearium español. (1897) (literally, Spanish Idearium, also translated as Spain, an Interpretation)
- La conquista del reino de Maya, por el último conquistador español, Pío Cid (1897) (The Conquest of the Mayan Kingdom, by the Last Spanish Conqueror, Pío Cid)
- Cartas finlandesas. (1898) (Finnish Letters, also translated into FinnishFinnish languageFinnish is the language spoken by the majority of the population in Finland Primarily for use by restaurant menus and by ethnic Finns outside Finland. It is one of the two official languages of Finland and an official minority language in Sweden. In Sweden, both standard Finnish and Meänkieli, a...
as Suomalaiskirjeitä) - El escultor de su alma. (1906) (The Sculptor of Your Soul)