Leopoldo Alas

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Leopoldo Alas "Clarín"
Born	Leopoldo Enrique García-Alas y Ureña (1852-04-25)25 April 1852 Zamora, Spain
Died	13 June 1901(1901-06-13) (aged 49) Oviedo, Spain
Pen name	Clarín
Occupation	Novelist, short story writer, journalist, critic, professor

Leopoldo Enrique García-Alas y Ureña (25 April 1852 – 13 June 1901), also known as Clarín, was a Spanish realist novelist born in Zamora. His inflammatory articles, known as paliques (“chitchat”), as well as his advocacy of liberalism and anti-clericalism, made him a formidable and controversial critical voice.^[1] He died in Oviedo.