What´s about?

In this page provides information on spanish authors whose works are at the national library of spain and spend each year to the public domain according to the information on the BNE catalogues can be edited, reproduced or disseminated publicly.

Each year were selected from among these authors some of particular interest for digitizing and made available to their works in the Digital library Hispánica, the portal that provides access to digitised funds of the library.

Similarly, there are Authors in the BNE profiles of these authors do not necessarily or at the forefront, with links to our catalog and other resources, with a view to make them known and regain their work for citizens.

List of authors in public domain

This is an open and collaborative list, so that anyone can help your development and enrichment proposing corrigenda, data or names that do not appear in the catalogues of bibliography, writing to: info.autoridades@bne.es.

• List of authors whose work is said to enter the public domain in 2025 (deceased in 1944)
• List of authors in public domain (deceased between 1900 and 1944)

Open data

In addition to these short listed have been created complete files with all the data available on the authority of the BIBLIOGRAPHY, and have been published as open data sets and reusable in different formats in the data portal for the BNE open datosabiertos.bne.es, following the strategy for the BNE for opening up and promote the reuse of your data and digital collections, and in the framework of BNElab.

• Files of authors who died between 1900 and 1944