Miguel de Cervantes
1547 - 1616
Spanish Author
Captured by pirates as a slave for five years, Cervantes, nevertheless, became the greatest novelist of the Spanish language.

His masterpiece 'Don Quixote' is a novel about a middle aged country landowner who imagines himself a knight in armor and goes into the world to battle injustice.

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