Pérez Galdós

American  

[per-uhz gahl-dohs, pe-res gahl-daws] / ˈpɛr əz gɑlˈdoʊs, ˈpɛ rɛs gɑlˈdɔs /

noun

1. Benito 1843–1920, Spanish journalist, dramatist, and novelist.

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Pérez Galdós British  

/ ˈpɛrɛs ɡɑːlˈdəʊs /

noun

1. Benito. 1843–1920, Spanish novelist. His works include the Episodios nacionales (1873–1912), a series of historical novels, and Fortunata y Jacinta (1886–87)

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Example Sentences

More dismaying, he simply ignores Spain’s greatest novelist since Cervantes, Benito Peréz Galdós, whose huge, teeming novel of the life of Madrid — “Fortunata and Jacinta” — is especially fascinating since, as far as I know, it is the only major adultery novel of the 19th century in which the central character, the adulterer, is a man.

From New York Times

King Felipe VI and Queen Letizia also visited a museum for local author Benito Perez Galdos, greeted supporters and were to meet with tourism sector representatives on the popular Spanish archipelago off the north-west coast of Africa.

From Reuters

Tristana is a novel of 1892 by the Spanish writer Benito Pérez Galdós.

From The Guardian

It’s based on an 1892 novel by the Spanish writer Benito Pérez Galdós, but Buñuel updates the action to the nineteen-thirties, not exactly an anodyne time in Spanish history or in history over-all.

From The New Yorker

“My God,” he thinks, “what stories ordinary life devised; not masterpieces to be sure, they were doubtless closer to Venezuelan, Brazilian, Colombian, and Mexican soap operas than to Cervantes and Tolstoy. But then again not so far from Alexandre Dumas, Émile Zola, Charles Dickens, or Bénito Pérez Galdós.”

From The New Yorker