![]() He had a great fondness for politics, although he did not consider himself a politician. He came to be nominated for the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1912, but his anticlericalism caused him to be successfully boycotted by the most conservative sectors of Spanish society, represented in traditionalist Catholicism, who did not recognize his intellectual and literary value. The Pérez Galdós museum in Las Palmas, Gran Canaria features a portrait of the writer by Joaquín Sorolla. While his plays are generally considered to be less successful than his novels, Realidad (1892) is important in the history of realism in the Spanish theatre. Some of his works have been translated into English, as he has slowly become popular in the Anglophone world. He remains popular in Spain, and is considered as equal to Dickens, Balzac and Tolstoy. ![]() ![]() Pérez Galdós was a prolific writer, publishing 31 novels, 46 Episodios Nacionales (National Episodes), 23 plays, and the equivalent of 20 volumes of shorter fiction, journalism and other writings. ![]() He was the leading literary figure in 19th-century Spain, and some scholars consider him second only to Miguel de Cervantes in stature as a Spanish novelist. Benito Pérez Galdós (– January 4, 1920) was a Spanish realist novelist. ![]()
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