Miguel de Unamuno y Jugo (/uːnəˈmuːnoʊ/;

Spanish: [miˈɣ̞el de̞ unaˈmuno i ˈxuɣ̞o]; 29 September 1864 – 31 December 1936) was a Spanish essayist, novelist, poet, playwright, philosopher and academic. His major philosophical essay was The Tragic Sense of Life (1912), and his most famous novels were Abel Sánchez: The History of a Passion (1917), a modern exploration of the Cain and Abel story, and Mist (1914), which The Literary Encyclopedia calls “the most acclaimed Spanish Modernist novel”.