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Poet, playwright, musician and artist, close friend of the great
Surrealists Salvador Dali, Joan Mir and Luis Bunuel, Federico
Garcia Lorca was one of the most distinctive and beloved writers of
modern times. His writing has inspired generations of writers and
artists, from Pablo Neruda to Leonard Cohen and Patti Smith.
Born in Andalusia, Spain, in 1898, Lorca studied in Madrid as a
young man and soon became prominent in artistic circles; in 1928
his book of Gypsy Ballads catapulted him to literary stardom. He
escaped to New York for a year in 1929, where he found he was able
to focus on his poetry and immerse himself in the thriving gay
culture of Harlem; upon returning to republican Spain he became
increasingly politicised, devoting himself to radical works of
theatre that rebelled against the bourgeois status quo.
Just after the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War in 1936, he was
murdered at Granada by Nationalist partisans. He was thirty-eight
years old.
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