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Arturo Reyes
1863–1913
A lively voice from Málaga, this Spanish writer captured Andalusian life with warmth, local color, and a sharp eye for everyday people. His poems, stories, and novels helped make him a well-known literary figure in southern Spain at the turn of the twentieth century.
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La voz de la conseja, t.1 Selección de las mejores novelas breves y cuentos de los más esclarecidos literatos
by Pío Baroja, Jacinto Benavente, Rubén Darío, Joaquín Dicenta, Ricardo León, Pedro Mata, José Nogales, Armando Palacio Valdés, condesa de Emilia Pardo Bazán, Benito Pérez Galdós, Pedro de Répide, Arturo Reyes, Miguel de Unamuno
About the author
Born in Málaga in 1864, he became known as a writer, journalist, and poet whose work was deeply rooted in Andalusian settings and customs. He wrote about the streets, speech, and social world around him, giving his fiction and verse a strong sense of place.
Alongside poetry, he published short fiction and novels, and he also contributed to newspapers and magazines. His reputation was closely tied to costumbrismo, a style that focuses on local character and everyday life, and readers especially valued the vivid regional flavor of his work.
He died in Málaga in 1913. Although he is less widely read today than some of his contemporaries, he remains an important part of the literary history of Málaga and Andalusia.