Federico García Lorca

Federico García Lorca (June 5, 1898 – August 19, 1936) was a Spanish poet and dramatist, also remembered as a painter, pianist, and composer. An emblematic member of the Generation of '27, he was murdered by Nationalist partisans at the age of 38 at the beginning of the Spanish Civil War. Today he is recognised as one of the great artists of modern Spain.

References

• {{Book reference | Author=Gibson, Ian | Title=Federico García Lorca: A Life | Publisher=London: Faber & Faber | Year=1990 | ID=ISBN 0571142249}}
• {{Book reference | Author=Stainton, Leslie | Title=Lorca: A Dream of Life | Publisher=London: Farrar Straus & Giroux | Year=1999 | ID=ISBN 0374190976}}
• {{Book reference | Author=Doggart, Sebastian & Michael Thompson (eds) | Title=Fire, Blood and the Alphabet: One Hundred Years of Lorca | Publisher=Durham: University of Durham | Year=1999 | ID=ISBN 0907310443}}