Her translation of Don Quixote was described as ‘indisputably definitive’, and she received a host of accolades including the Order of Civil Merit awarded by the King of Spain
March 2023
Márquez overtakes Cervantes as most translated Spanish-language writer
Don Quixote review – Australian Ballet returns to Nureyev in a sumptuous, exuberant showcase
December 2022
‘Once-in-a-lifetime’ copy of Don Quixote fetches €500,000 at auction
Total of €900,000 paid for Cervantes’ works that a diplomat bought on a shopping trip to London in 1930s
October 2022
‘Miracle find’: rare Don Quixote and short stories could sell for €900k
Don Quixote: Man of Clackmannanshire review – the knight-errant mounts a mobility scooter
July 2022
‘First modern novel – oldest language’: Sanskrit translation of Don Quixote rescued from oblivion
Translated by two Kashmiri pandits from an C18th English translation in the 1930s, unique work lay forgotten in a Harvard University library
April 2022
Lost in La Mancha review – landmark doc of Terry Gilliam’s cinematic nightmare
Gilliam’s epic travails filming Don Quixote are well worth seeing again – and should be on the syllabus at every film school
July 2021
The True Don Quixote review – Tim Blake Nelson tilts at whimsy in Cervantes update
The Coen brothers regular plays a delusional ex-librarian who goes questing on a motorbike and sidecar in this good-natured retelling of the classic adventure
April 2021
Chinese Don Quixote is translated into Spanish after 100 years
Lin Shu’s forgotten 1922 text, The Story of the Enchanted Knight – with a less deluded Don Quixote – in edition for China and Spain
November 2020
'It had been on my shelf for years': readers share their lockdown reads
Publishers report that coronavirus has boosted sales of long, classic novels. You reveal the great baggy monsters you’ve found the time to tackle
December 2019
From the Guardian archive
Film review of Don Quixote - archive, 1933
19 December 1933 Director Pabst has succeeded in carrying to the screen only the tiniest part of the wisdom and splendour of Cervantes’ classic novel
February 2019
Top 10s
Top 10 genre-twisting novels
From Cervantes’ warping of chivalric romance to Flann O’Brien’s narrative games, novelist Alan Trotter picks his favourite convention-smashing tales
May 2018
First look review
The Man Who Killed Don Quixote review – Terry Gilliam's epic journey finds a joyous end
After a three-decade production ordeal Gilliam has delivered a sun-baked fable of money, madness and the movie business – and done so with trademark infectious charm
March 2018
Spanish publisher subverts court gag by using Don Quixote to recreate banned book
Finding Fariña website allows access to exposé of drug trafficking in Galicia while author, Nacho Carretero, and publisher face legal action
October 2017
Lost in La Mancha's Jean Rochefort, veteran French actor, dies at 87
Rochefort, who scored a major international success in The Hairdresser’s Husband, was also cast as Don Quixote in Terry Gilliam’s ill-fated Cervantes adaptation
December 2016
Divided times: how literature teaches us to understand 'the other'
In an era of fear and division, fiction plays a vital role in dramatising difference and encouraging empathy
November 2016
It’s all for love as Spain’s Barbara Cartland finally gets a chance to woo British readers
Corín Tellado is famed throughout the Spanish-speaking world for her light romance novellas
October 2016
As Terry Gilliam's Don Quixote stalls again, Disney plans rival movie
Screenwriter Billy Ray reportedly working on adaptation of classic novel about the delusional, romantic knight
July 2016
Pigs and Dogs review – a quick shot at homophobia
Caryl Churchill takes just 15 minutes to skewer intolerance in Africa with a challenge to both prejudice and the conventions of political theatre
