Pedro Antonio de Alarcón y Ariza (10 March 1833 – 19 July 1891) was a nineteenth-century Spanish novelist, known best for his novel El sombrero de tres picos (1874), an adaptation of popular traditions which provides a description of village life in Alarcón's native region of Andalusia. It was the basis for Hugo Wolf's opera Der Corregidor (1897); for Riccardo Zandonai's opera La farsa amorosa (1933); and Manuel de Falla's ballet The Three-Cornered Hat (1919).

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Pedro Antonio de Alarcón
Portrait published 1898
Born	Pedro Antonio de Alarcón y Ariza (1833-03-10)10 March 1833 Guadix, Spain
Died	19 July 1891(1891-07-19) (aged 58) Madrid, Spain
Resting place	Cementerio de San Justo
Occupation	Novelist
Language	Spanish
Nationality	Spanish
Literary movement	Literary realism
Seat H of the Real Academia Española
In office 25 February 1877 – 19 July 1891
Preceded by	Fermín de la Puente y Apezechea [es]
Succeeded by	Francisco Asenjo Barbieri

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Alarcón wrote another popular short novel, El capitán Veneno [es] ('Captain Poison', 1881). He produced four other full-length novels. One of these novels, El escándalo ('The Scandal', 1875), became noted for its keen psychological insights. Alarcón also wrote three travel books and many short stories and essays.^[1]

Alarcón was born in Guadix, near Granada. In 1859, he served in a Spanish military operation in Morocco. He gained his first literary recognition with Diary of a Witness to the African War (1859–1860) [es], a patriotic account of the campaign.