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Spanish novelist (1853-1938)

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Palacio and the second or maternal family name is Rodríguez-Valdés.

Armando Francisco Bonifacio Palacio y Rodríguez-Valdés (4 October 1853 – 29 January 1938) was a Spanish novelist and critic.

Biography

Palacio was born at Entrialgo in the province of Asturias on 4 October 1853, eldest son of Silverio Palacio y Cárcaba, a lawyer, and Eduarda Rodríguez-Valdés y Alas, an aristocrat. His brothers, Atanasio and Leopoldo, also were writers.

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His first writings were printed in the Revista Europea. These were pungent essays, remarkable for independent judgment and refined humour, and found so much favor with the public that the young beginner was soon appointed editor of the Revista.

The best of his critical work is collected in Los Oradores del Ateneo (1878), Los Novelistas españoles (1878), Nuevo viaje al Parnaso and La Literatura e