Cervantes escritor

Nuria gets on a bus with a worksheet. Her teacher wants dates, and Nuria wants them finished before Alcalá de Henares. She writes that Cervantes was born in Alcalá de Henares in 1547 and died in 1616. The man beside her says the people are missing. He is getting off in Alcalá because Cervantes was born there. He says Cervantes wrote a book called Don Quixote de la Mancha, but today he will tell the life, not the book. Cervantes went to war against the Turks and was wounded in the left hand. He was captured at sea and spent five years as a prisoner in Algiers. He returned to Spain, worked as a tax collector, wrote poems and plays, and lived in humble houses in Madrid and Valladolid, without much money. The book came out in two parts, in 1605 and 1615. He died in Madrid in 1616. Nuria turns the page and writes a sentence, not a number: a hand, five years, Algiers. As the bus enters Alcalá, she says she will remember the person, not only the dates.