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Federico García Lorca
Federico del Sagrado Corazón de Jesús García Lorca was a Spanish poet, playwright, and theatre director. García Lorca achieved international recognition as an emblematic member of the Generation of '27, a group consisting mostly of poets who introduced the tenets of European movements into Spanish literature.
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culture · Spanish poet, dramatist and theatre director (1898–1936) · theatre director · lyricist · playwright · poet · writer · composer · theatre manager · draftsperson · musician · librettist · also Federico García Lorca, F. G. Lorca, Lorca, Federico del Sagrado Corazón de Jesús García Lorca, Lorka, F. Garcia Lorca
Born 5 June 1898 · Died 18 August 1936 · Q41408
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The gypsies are a theme. And nothing more. I could just as well be a poet of sewing needles or hydraulic landscapes. Besides, this gypsyism gives me the appearance of an uncultured, ignorant and primitive poet that you know very well I
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2026· 28 entries
“The gypsies are a theme. And nothing more. I could just as well be a poet of sewing needles or hydraulic landscapes. Besides, this gypsyism gives me the appearance of an uncultured, ignorant and primitive poet that you know very well I”
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Diario de Noticias de Navarra: Carta a Federico García Lorca
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Rolling Stone en Español: Exigen la verdad sobre la muerte de Federico García Lorca
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Euronews.com: New Lorca works emerge: a love letter cut short by Spanish Civil War and an unpublished poem
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La Voz de Lanzarote: Lorca, 90 years later: when words overcome silence
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Cadena SER: Federico García Lorca, 90 años después: un poeta que sigue sin morir
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elDiario.es: Los versos de Federico García Lorca en el portal del edificio de Chamberí donde vivió
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Melilla Hoy: Un homenaje recordará en Madrid a Federico García Lorca, 90 años después de su asesinato
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RTVE.es: Federico García Lorca, an immortal voice
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Clarin.com: Federico García Lorca: 90 años de un crimen que aún mantiene preguntas abiertas
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Revista Perfiles: Federico García Lorca: 5 libros para entender su vida y legado
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elboletin.com: Federico García Lorca, 90 años después: su fosa sigue sin aparecer mientras emergen nuevos versos e imágenes
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Ayto. Algeciras: Pintor asiste al acto de homenaje a Federico García Lorca en el 90º aniversario de su fallecimiento
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Contando Estrelas: Federico García Lorca, to a friend: “My destiny is to die murdered by one side or the other”
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Contando Estrelas: Federico García Lorca, a un amigo: «Mi destino es morir asesinado por unos o por otros»
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Artículo 14: Las heroínas de Lorca: la rebelión del deseo contra los muros de la tradición
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35 Milímetros: 90 años sin Federico García Lorca: el poeta que el cine se niega a olvidar
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heraldousa.com: What Were Federico García Lorca's Final Hours Like? 90 Years After His Murder, New Details Revealed
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CatalunyaPress: Maíllo destroza a Moreno Bonilla por su homenaje a García Lorca
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Woman Madame Figaro: Se cumplen 90 años del fusilamiento de Federico García Lorca: 'Si me mataran, ¿lloraríais mucho?'
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RTVE.es: 'Los amores oscuros' de Federico García Lorca
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aragonplay.es: VIDEONOTICIA. El legado de Federico García Lorca sigue vivo 90 años después de su muerte
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El Constitucional: Noventa años sin Federico García Lorca: su obra vive mientras el Estado mantiene documentos sobre su asesinato bajo secreto
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El Constitucional: Ninety years without Federico García Lorca: his work lives on while the State keeps documents about his assassination under wraps
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mundotoro.com: Federico García Lorca: leer ayuda a no matar
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Public attention spiked: 3,681 Wikipedia readers in one day, 5.2× the usual 704, with 0 article edits. Coverage that week: “Exigen la verdad sobre la muerte de Federico García Lorca” (Rolling Stone en Español).
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Public attention spiked: 2,547 Wikipedia readers in one day, 3.6× the usual 704, with 0 article edits.
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2022· 1 entry
Released album “Sonetos del Amor Oscuro”.
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2021· 1 entry
It was reported that there would be an investigation of mass graves at Barranco de Víznar (a locality near Víznar where there is a memorial to Lorca)
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2016· 3 entries
Released album “Encuentro”.
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To commemorate the 80th anniversary of his death, commissioned by the Spanish Embassy in Indonesia and the Ubud Writers & Readers Festival (Bali) where it was premiered by soprano Mariska Setiawan
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By Stephen Roberts, an associate professor in Spanish literature at the University of Nottingham, and others that Lorca's body was buried in a well in Alfacar have not been substantiated
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2014· 2 entries
That "the statue, at least, is still an emblem of the contested past: each day, the Left puts a red kerchief on the neck of the statue, and someone from the Right comes later to take it off"
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Lorca was one of the inaugural honourees in the Rainbow Honor Walk, a walk of fame in San Francisco's Castro neighborhood noting LGBTQ people who have "made significant contributions in their fields"
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2012· 1 entry
Suggest that the actual inspiration was Juan Ramírez de Lucas, a 19-year-old with whom Lorca hoped to emigrate to Mexico
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2009· 2 entries
Excavations in it failed to locate Lorca's body
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In the García Lorca Memorial Park; the second, in 2014, less than a kilometre from the first excavation, and the last, in 2016, in Alfacar
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2008· 1 entry
A Spanish judge opened an investigation into García Lorca's death
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2006· 1 entry
Released album “Il y a eu crime dans Grenade : Les poèmes du Cante Jondo”.
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2002· 1 entry
Released album “Canciones populares españolas”.
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2001· 1 entry
Released album “Popular Spanish Songs”.
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1997· 1 entry
Released album “Falla Lorca: Chants Populaires Espagnols (Spanish Popular Songs)”.
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1995· 1 entry
Released album “Falla: El corregidor y la molinera / García Lorca: Canciones españolas antiguas”.
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1994· 1 entry
Released album “Colección de canciones populares españolas”.
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1988· 1 entry
Released album “Noces de Sang”.
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1966· 1 entry
Released album “Poésie de cruauté”.
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1940· 1 entry
First translation into English as Poet in New York 1940)
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1936· 24 entries
Died 1936-08-18.
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“Kiedy na czole topólMarszczy się wiatr Południa.Gdy nasze serca oddadząŻniwo swych westchnień.”
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“theatre is poetry that rises from the book and becomes human enough to talk and shout, weep and despair.”
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"theatre is poetry that rises from the book and becomes human enough to talk and shout, weep and despair
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“Ani ty, ani janie jesteśmy gotowiaby się spotkać.Ty… przecież wiesz…Kocham go bardzo!Idź dalej swoją drogą.Na dłoniachmam dziurypo gwoździach.Czyż nie widzisz,że krwawię?”
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“A jeśli miłość nas oszuka?Kto życiu ma otuchy dodać,Kiedy ciemności nas pochłoną,By nas pogrążyć w wiedzy Dobra,Co może nie istnieje wcale,i Zła, co skrada się po schodach?”
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“AlejąŚmierć kroczy.Zwiędłymi kwiatami pomarańczygłowa jej koronowana.Śpiewa i śpiewapieśń,zawodzi jej gitara biała.”
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“Bardzo mało jest śpiewających aniołów,bardzo mało jest szczekających psów,tysiące skrzypiec mieści się w jednej dłoni.”
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“Bez żadnego powiewuusłuchaj mnie!Serce, obracaj się.Serce, obracaj się.”
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“Como no me he preocupado de nacer, no me preocupo de morir.”
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“Chrystusmiał lustrow dłoniach obu.Pomnażałwłasne odbicie.Wyświetlał sercew czarnych spojrzeniachWierzę!”
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“Dzisiaj odczuwam w mym sercugwiazd lekkie drżenie, lecz drogazatraca się w duszy mgieł,gubi się w gęstych obłokach.”
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“Gitaracuda sprawia,do płaczu marzenia namawia.Łkania zagubionych duszwyrywają się z jej ust.”
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“Jakwachlarz falujeoliwek dojrzałych pole.Nad oliwkami wisiw deszczu lodowatymniebo utopione.”
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“Krzyż.(Koniec drogi.)Odbijający się w kanale życia(Wielokropek.)”
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“Kiedy wschodzi księżyc,morze kryje ziemięi serce jest wyspąwśród nieskończoności.”
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“As I was not worried about being, born, I don't worry about dying.”
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“Lament zaczynagitara.Pęka jutrzenkiczara.Nie oczekuj od niejmilczenia –jestnie do uciszenia.”
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“Narondziepląsadziewic sześć.Trzy smukłei trzy puszyste.Marzeń minionych goniły treśćlecz objął je Polifem złotyw ramiona swe sprężyste.Gitara!”
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“Na wieżyżółtejbije dzwon.Na wietrzeżółtymkuranty grzmią.”
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“Nie chciałem.Nie chciałem ci nic powiedzieć.”
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“Są dusze, co mająmodre gwiazdy z niebios,w liściach czasu zorzęporanną uwiędłąi czyste zakątki,co w swym wnętrzu strzegąszmeru snów minionychi tęsknot.”
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“Setki kochankówśpi snem wiecznymw ziemi suchej, ziemi ciepłej.(…)Setki kochankówśpi snem wiecznym,ostatecznym.”
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“Za każdym lustremjest zmarła gwiazdai tęcza maleńkauśpiona.Za każdym lustremjest wieczny spokóji gniazdo dalekich uciszeń,do których dotrzeć się nie da.(…)Lustroto matka-rosa,księga, która zasuszazachody słońc i echo kształtu”
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1934· 1 entry
And its last performance was given in April 1936
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1933· 1 entry
To give lectures and direct the Argentine premiere of Blood Wedding, García Lorca spoke of his distilled theories on artistic creation and performance in the famous lecture Play and Theory of the Duende
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1932· 1 entry
Career landmark: theatre manager (1932–1936).
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1931· 1 entry
García Lorca was appointed director of a student theatre company, Teatro Universitario La Barraca (The Shack)
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1930· 1 entry
Coincided with the fall of the dictatorship of Primo de Rivera and the establishment of the Second Spanish Republic
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1928· 1 entry
The book brought him fame across Spain and the Hispanic world, and it was only much later that he gained notability as a playwright
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1927· 1 entry
“s Prodigious Wife, which would not be shown until the early 1930s. It was a farce about fantasy, based on the relationship between a flirtatious, petulant wife and a hen-pecked shoemaker.From 1925 to 1928, he was passionately involved with Dalí. Although Dali”
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1926· 1 entry
García Lorca wrote the play The Shoemaker's Prodigious Wife, which would not be shown until the early 1930s
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1922· 1 entry
At Granada García Lorca joined the composer Manuel de Falla in order to promote the Concurso de Cante Jondo, a festival dedicated to enhancing flamenco performance and its cante jondo style
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1921· 1 entry
Collecting work written from 1918, and selected with the help of his brother Francisco (nicknamed Paquito)
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1919· 2 entries
“s Evil Spell. It was a verse play dramatising the impossible love between a cockroach and a butterfly, with a supporting cast of other insects; it was laughed off the stage by an unappreciative public after only four performances and influenced García Lorca”
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While nominally attending classes at the University of Madrid
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1916· 2 entries
And 1917, García Lorca travelled throughout Castile, León, and Galicia, in northern Spain, with a professor of his university, who also encouraged him to write his first book, Impresiones y paisajes (Impressions and Land
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And his first prose works, such as "Nocturne", "Ballade", and "Sonata", drew on musical forms
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1915· 2 entries
After graduating from secondary school, García Lorca attended the University of Granada
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Studied at Facultad de Filosofía y Letras (Universidad de Granada) (1915).
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1909· 1 entry
When the boy was 11, his family moved to the regional capital of Granada, where there was the equivalent of a high school; their best-known residence there is the summer home called the Huerta de San Vicente, on what wer
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1905· 1 entry
The family moved from Fuente Vaqueros to the nearby town of Valderrubio (at the time named Asquerosa)
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1898· 1 entry
Born 1898-06-05.
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