Also called Generation of 1898 (Spanish: Generación del 98 or Generación de 1898). In Spain, the novelists, poets, essayists, and thinkers active at the time of the Spanish-American War (1898), who reinvigorated Spanish letters and restored Spain to a position of intellectual and literary prominence that it had not held for centuries.

Precursors

• Joaquín Costa
• Ángel Ganivet
• Miguel de Unamuno

Other figures

• Azorín
• José Ortega y Gasset
• Pío Baroja
• Vicente Blasco Ibáñez
• Ramón del Valle-Inclán
• Antonio Machado y Ruiz
• Manuel Machado y Ruiz
• Ramón Pérez de Ayala