author
Pedro Mata
1875–1946
A bestselling Spanish writer of the early 20th century, he moved easily between novels, journalism, poetry, and the stage. His stories reached a wide audience in print and some were later adapted for film.
2 Audiobooks
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
Ganarás el pan...
by Pedro Mata
About the author
Born in Madrid in 1875, Pedro Mata y Domínguez was a Spanish writer, journalist, novelist, playwright, and poet. He came from a literary family as the grandson of Pedro Mata Fontanet, and he built a remarkably broad career across many of the most popular forms of writing of his time.
His early novel Ganarás el pan… won a prize from La Ilustración Española in 1902, and Corazones sin rumbo became one of his best-known works, earning recognition from the Círculo de Bellas Artes. Contemporary sources describe him as a widely read author whose fiction enjoyed major success in the decades before the Spanish Civil War.
Alongside his fiction, he contributed to newspapers and magazines and wrote for the theater as well. He died in Madrid in 1946, leaving behind a body of work that shows how closely literature, journalism, and popular culture were linked in Spain during his lifetime.