Biography of Federico García Lorca

Name: Federico García Lorca
Birth Date: June 5, 1898
Death Date: August 19, 1936
Place of Birth: Granada, Spain
Nationality: Spanish
Gender: Male
Occupations: writer

Federico García Lorca

The poetry of the Spanish author Federico García Lorca (1898-1936) is marked by brilliance, originality, and dramatic flair. His plays are among the best examples of 20th-century poetic drama.In the 20th century Federico García Lorca, Miguel de Unamuno, and José Ortega y Gassett are perhaps the Spaniards most widely known in international circles, Lorca for his poetry and the dramatic circumstances of his death, the other two for their philosophical and political ideas. In Spain, Lorca was a member of the Generation of 1927, largely a group of outstanding poets (Jorge Guillén, Pedro Salinas, and Rafael Alberti, among others). Lorca's generation, which followed Unamuno's famous Generation of 1898, dominated Spanish letters during the decade prior to the Spanish Civil War.Federico García Lorca was born in Fuentevaqueros, a village near Granada, on June 5, 1898. His father, Don Federico García, was a respected …showed first 150 words…

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…showed last 150 words…Spanish in a single-volume edition; the most extensive biography about him is also in Spanish. A manuscript containing previously unpublished poems was discovered in Mexico in 1997. It has been translated into English and published together with a collection of his letters under the title Poet in New York (1998). Four studies in English which treat the poet's life and works are Arturo Barea, Lorca: The Poet and His People (trans. 1944), which concentrates on Lorca's Andalusian background; Edwin Honig, García Lorca (1944; rev. ed. 1963), a traditional study which emphasizes Lorca's poetry; Roy Campbell, Lorca: An Appreciation of His Poetry (1952), which contains good translations as well as criticism of the poetry; and Carl W. Cobb, Federico García Lorca (1967), which summarizes Lorca's career, stressing the importance of his homosexuality in relation to the iconoclasm in his work. Leslie Stainton's Lorca: A Dream of Life(1999) identifies the decisive influences in Lorca's life.

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