Jean Canavaggio

Jean Canavaggio (born 23 July 1936) is a French biographer and former emeritus professor of Spanish literature at the Paris West University Nanterre La Défense.
Biography.
A former student of the École normale supérieure (class 1956), Jean Canavaggio is a biographer and specialist of Cervantès. In 2001, he directed a new translation of his complete novels in the Bibliothèque de la Pléiade. From 1988 to 1992, he was president of the jury of external agrégation of Spanish. From 1996 to 2001, he was director of the Casa de Velázquez at Madrid. He is corresponding member of the Real Academia de la Lengua and the Real Academia de la Historia (Madrid) and honorary fellow of the Hispanic Society of America (New York). His work in the Cervantian domain is now authoritative.
Articles.
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