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Camilo Castelo Branco
Camilo Castelo Branco (1825–1890) was a Portuguese novelist and the leading figure of Romanticism in Portugal, its first professional writer, whose masterpiece Amor de Perdição (1862) remains his most read novel.
Eça de Queirós
Eça de Queirós, born José Maria de Eça de Queiroz (1845–1900), was a Portuguese novelist and diplomat regarded as the leading realist in Portuguese literature.
Emilia Pardo Bazán
Emilia Pardo Bazán (1851–1921) was a Spanish novelist, journalist, and critic who introduced literary naturalism to Spain; her masterpiece, Los pazos de Ulloa (1886), portrays rural Galicia.
Fernán Caballero
Fernán Caballero was the pen name of Spanish novelist Cecilia Böhl de Faber (1796–1877), who debuted with La Gaviota in 1849 and pioneered the realist novel in Spain.
José María de Pereda
José María de Pereda (1833 to 1906) was a Spanish novelist, journalist, and politician, a leading figure of nineteenth-century Realism known for the regional novels Sotileza and Peñas arriba.
María de Zayas
María de Zayas (1590, Madrid – ca. 1660) was a Spanish novelist of the Siglo de Oro, best known for Novelas amorosas y ejemplares and Desengaños amorosos.
Mateo Alemán
Mateo Alemán (1547–1614) was a Spanish novelist of the Siglo de Oro, remembered for Guzmán de Alfarache, the novel that gave the picaresque genre its full form.