Federico García Lorca

Federico del Sagrado Corazón de Jesús García Lorca; (5 June 1898 – 19 August 1936) was a Spanish poet, dramatist and theatre director. García Lorca achieved international recognition as an emblematic member of the Generation of '27. He is believed to be one of thousands who were summarily shot by anti-communist death squads during the Spanish Civil War.Ian Gibson, The Assassination of Federico García Lorca.  Penguin (1983) ;  Michael Wood, "The Lorca Murder Case", The New York Review of Books, Vol. 24, No. 19 (24 November 1977); José Luis Vila-San-Juan, García Lorca, Asesinado: Toda la verdad Barcelona, Editorial Planeta (1975)  Reuters, "Spanish judge opens case into Franco's atrocities", International Herald Tribune (16 October 2008)  He was gay. In 2008, a Spanish judge opened an investigation into Lorca's death. The Garcia Lorca family eventually dropped objections to the excavation of a potential gravesite near Alfacar. However, no human remains were found. No remains found - Guardian article

Related pages
Le Monde's 100 Books of the Century, a list which includes Gypsy Ballads
List of people who disappeared mysteriously: 1910–1990

References

 Sources 

  Maurer,  Christopher (2001) Federico García Lorca:Selected Poems Penguin

 Other websites 

 The Lorca Foundation 
 Huerta De San Vicente, Grandada - The Lorca Family home now a museum 
 Lorca censored to hide sexuality - article by The Independent, 14 March 2009
 LGB biog of García Lorca  
 Lorca and Censorship: The Gay Artist Made Heterosexual   - essay  by Eisenberg, D; FSU

Category:1898 births
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