Antonio Valladares de Sotomayor

Antonio Valladares de Sotomayor (1737–1820) was a Spanish journalist, poet, playwright, and writer.

He was Considered one of the most prolific literary figures of the second half of the 18th century and, together with Luciano Francisco Comella and Gaspar Zavala y Zamora, one of the most popular playwrights of that period,

Once in Madrid, in order to maintain a lifestyle in accordance with his own words, "honor heredado en su cuna" ("the honour inherited from the cradle"), he began to write plays and publish articles. His vast output earned him the negative criticism of leading literary figures, such as Juan Pablo Forner and Leandro Fernández de Moratín, of being just another, of many, hack writers.

Later works As well as several failed attempts to re-establish his Seminario, between 1797 and 1807 Valladares wrote nine printed volumes of a novel, La Leandra, published in fascicles.