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Federico García Lorca

1898 - 1936

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Federico del Sagrado Corazón de Jesús García Lorca (5 June 1898 – 19 August 1936) 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 (such as symbolism, futurism, and surrealism) into Spanish literature. He initially rose to fame with Romancero gitano (Gypsy Ballads, 1928), a book of poems depicting life in his native Andalusia. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Federico García Lorca has received more than 3,258,325 page views. His biography is available in 106 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 104 in 2019). Federico García Lorca is the 116th most popular writer (down from 112th in 2019), the 31st most popular biography from Spain (up from 34th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Spanish Writer.

Federico García Lorca was a Spanish poet, dramatist, and theatre director. He is most famous for his poetry.

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  • 106

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  • 5.12

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Notable Works

Plays
English drama, Spanish drama, Translations from Spanish
In his four last plays (Blood Wedding, Yerma, The House of Bernarda Alba, Dona Rosita the Spinster) Federico García Lorca offered his disturbed and disturbing personal vision to Spanish audiences of the 1930s---unready, as he thought them, for the sexual frankness and surreal expression of his more experimental work. The authentic sense of danger of Lorca's theatre is finely conveyed here in John Edmunds's fluent and rhythmic new translations that lend themselves admirably to performance.
1938
Bodas de sangre
Spanish drama, Spanish language books, Drama
1956
Poems
Criticism and interpretation, Crítica e interpretación, Love poetry, Spanish
1955
Obras completas
1938
Poeta en Nueva York
Description and travel, Facsimiles, Manuscripts
1940

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Federico García Lorca ranks 116 out of 7,302. Before him are Haruki Murakami, Apuleius, Jean de La Fontaine, George Bernard Shaw, E. T. A. Hoffmann, and Sully Prudhomme. After him are Anatole France, Jean Cocteau, Guy de Maupassant, Charles Bukowski, Ivo Andrić, and Charlotte Brontë.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1898, Federico García Lorca ranks 6. Before him are Golda Meir, Bertolt Brecht, René Magritte, Alvar Aalto, and Erich Maria Remarque. After him are Enzo Ferrari, Sergei Eisenstein, Umm Kulthum, M. C. Escher, Zhou Enlai, and William James Sidis. Among people deceased in 1936, Federico García Lorca ranks 3. Before him are Ivan Pavlov, and Maxim Gorky. After him are Rudyard Kipling, George V, Luigi Pirandello, Antoine Meillet, Lu Xun, Oswald Spengler, Alexander Glazunov, Lev Kamenev, and Ferdinand Tönnies.

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In Spain

Among people born in Spain, Federico García Lorca ranks 31 out of 3,355. Before him are Francis Xavier (1506), Saint Lawrence (225), Philip IV of Spain (1605), Teresa of Ávila (1515), Catherine of Aragon (1485), and Ferdinand II of Aragon (1452). After him are Julio Iglesias (1943), Philip III of Spain (1578), Anne of Austria (1601), Saint Dominic (1170), Juan Sebastián Elcano (1476), and Isidore of Seville (560).

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Among WRITERS In Spain

Among writers born in Spain, Federico García Lorca ranks 2. Before him are Miguel de Cervantes (1547). After him are Joan Fuster (1922), Lope de Vega (1562), Quintilian (35), Pedro Calderón de la Barca (1600), Bartolomé de las Casas (1484), Alfonso X of Castile (1221), Lucan (39), Seneca the Elder (-54), Martial (40), and Juan Ramón Jiménez (1881).

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