Spanish literature

Spanish literature is the literature (Spanish poetry, prose, and drama) written in the Spanish language in what today is the Kingdom of Spain. It developed at the same time as other literary traditions from areas in the same territory, particularly Catalan and Galician literature and also with Latin, Jewish, and Arabic literary traditions of the Iberian peninsula. The literature of Spanish America is an important branch of Spanish literature (see Latin American literature).

The Cantar de Mio Cid is the oldest preserved Spanish cantar de gesta

La Celestina by Fernando de Rojas

Cervantes's Don Quixote is considered the most important work of world and Spanish literature and a founding classic of Western literature.

Ángel de Saavedra

Portrait of Benito Pérez Galdós, by Joaquín Sorolla

Juan Ramón Jiménez