Miguel de Cervantes: Author of Don Quixote
His famous work was a “one-hit wonder”, but it was quite a hit!
3 min readFeb 6, 2023
It is more usual to celebrate the birth dates of famous people than their baptism dates, but sometimes this is not possible. It is not known exactly when Miguel de Cervantes was born, but we do know that he was baptised on 9th October 1547 in a small town about 20 miles from Madrid, Spain.
His claim to fame is that he penned the first prose work in Europe to which the name “novel” can reliably be assigned, namely “Don Quixote”…