Miguel de Cervantes was a renowned Spanish writer known for his masterpiece Don Quixote, which established him as the greatest figure in Spanish literature. Federico García Lorca was a Spanish poet and playwright who was part of the literary movement "Generation of '27" and was famously murdered during the Spanish Civil War. Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer was an important Spanish romantic poet whose "rhymes" helped establish the foundations of modern Spanish poetry. Camilo José Cela was the fifth Spanish writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature and the first Spanish novelist to achieve such widespread international acclaim, having excelled as a novelist, poet, writer, and author of travel books.