Leopoldo Alas, Spanish author, critic, and academic (died 1901)

Leopoldo Alas

Spanish author

Leopoldo Enrique García-Alas y Ureña, also known as Clarín, was a Spanish realist novelist and journalist born in Zamora. His inflammatory articles, known as paliques (“chitchat”), as well as his advocacy of liberalism and anti-clericalism, made him a formidable and…