Federico García Lorca

Federico Bonaddio (King's College London)

Ed. by Stuart Green, University of Leeds
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.6.2.02: Spanish Writing and Culture: Modern and Contemporary, 1700-present.
Vol. editors: Santiago Bertrán (University of Oxford), Isabel Berzal Ayuso (Universidad de Alcala de Henares), Stuart Green (University of Leeds), Alexis Grohmann (University of Edinburgh), Duncan Wheeler (University of Leeds)

Dates

Born 5 Jun 1898
Died 18 Aug 1936
Activity 1918-1936

Places

Born in Spain
Active in Spain

Activities

Primary

Film/TV Script-writer/ Screenwriter
Playwright / Dramatist
Poet

Resources

García Lorca's Works

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Over the course of his relatively short career, Federico García Lorca produced a body of work which includes not only poetry and theatre but also prose, essays, music and drawing. He is best known for the plays that form his rural trilogy (

Bodas de sangre

[Blood Wedding],

Yerma

and

La casa de Bernarda Alba

[The House of Bernarda Alba]) and for his books of verse

Romancero gitano

[Gypsy Ballads] and

Poeta en Nueva York

[Poet in New York]. Although he never considered himself to be a political writer, in the increasingly polarized Spain of the early 1930s his sympathies lay with the Republic. At the outbreak of the Civil War he was arrested by Nationalist insurgents and summarily executed a few miles from Granada.

Lorca was born on 5 June 1898 to a wealthy landowner, Federico García

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Citation: Bonaddio, Federico. "Federico García Lorca". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 08 November 2008 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=4924, accessed 19 April 2024.]

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