Don Quixote is a Spanish novel by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. Don Quixote is considered the most influential work of literature from the Spanish Golden Age and the entire Spanish literary canon. As a founding work of modern Western literature, and one of the earliest canonical novels, it regularly appears high on lists of the greatest works of fiction ever published. It has had major influence on the literary community. Don Quixote was cited as the best literary work ever written, and has been translated into more languages than any book other than the Bible.