Biography
Federico García Lorca was born in Fuente Vaqueros near Granada in 1898, began university studies in Granada in 1914 and moved to the Residencia de Estudiantes in Madrid in 1919, where he met Salvador Dalí and Luis Buñuel, among others. As a poet of the Generation of '27 he became famous in Spain and Latin America with “Romancero gitano” in 1928; in 1929–30 he lived in New York and travelled to Cuba, writing the poems of “Poeta en Nueva York”. From 1931 he led La Barraca, a touring student theatre backed by the Republic that took classic Spanish drama by Cervantes and Calderón to rural villages. His major tragedies followed: “Blood Wedding” (1933), “Yerma” (1934) and “Doña Rosita la soltera” (1935); he completed “The House of Bernarda Alba” in 1936, but it was not staged until 1945. Shortly after the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War he was arrested near Granada by Nationalist rebels in August 1936 and shot, and his remains have never been found. Censored at first under Franco, he is now regarded as an emblematic figure of 20th-century Spanish poetry and drama.
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