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Federico García Lorca Biography

(1898 - 1936)

Related Works

Poetry
1927 Songs
1928, 1935 The Gypsy Ballads

1935 Lament for the Death of a Bullfighter and Other Poems
Plays
1926 The Prodigious Shoemaker's Wife
1928 The Love of Don Perlimpín With Belisa in His Garden
1929–30 As Five Years Pass
1930 The Audience
1933 Blood Wedding
1934 Yerma
1935 Doña Rosita the Spinster; or the Language of the Flowers
1936 The House of Bernarda Alba

» More

Related People

Francisco Franco (Bahamonde)

Related Sites

Link to the Academy of American Poets

Poet, playwright. Born on June 5, 1898, in Fuente Vaqueros, Spain. Considered one of Spain's greatest poets and dramatists, Lorca went to Madrid in 1919 where he entered the Residencia de Estudiantes, or residence of scholars. While at the residence, he met and befriended artist Salvador Dali around 1921. Dali would later design the scenery for the Barcelona production of Lorca's play Mariana Pineda (1927).

Lorca's two most successful poetry collections were Canciones (Songs), published in 1927, and Romancero gitano (the Gypsy Ballads), published in 1928. Romancero gitano was especially daring for the time with its exploration of sexual themes and made Lorca a celebrity in the literary world. In the 1930s, Lorca spent much of his time working on plays, including a folk drama trilogy Bodas de Sangre (Blood Wedding) in 1933, Yerma in 1934, and La Casa de Bernarda Alba (The House of Bernarda Alba) in 1936.

The Spanish Civil War broke out in 1936 and Lorca found himself caught in the middle of the conflict. He was shot without trial by supporters of General Francisco Franco on August 19 or 20, 1936, in Granada.