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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), known as Federico García Lorca (English: gar-SEE-ə LOR-kə), 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 3,085,946 page views. His biography is available in 104 different languages on Wikipedia. Federico García Lorca is the 112th most popular writer (up from 122nd in 2019), the 34th most popular biography from Spain (down from 29th 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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  • 104

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  • 7.11

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  • 5.35

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Federico García Lorca ranks 112 out of 5,755. Before him are Anatole France, Boris Pasternak, Du Fu, François Rabelais, Samuel Beckett, and Vladimir Nabokov. After him are Mary Shelley, François Villon, Plautus, Václav Havel, Sully Prudhomme, and E. T. A. Hoffmann.

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Contemporaries

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

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In Spain

Among people born in Spain, Federico García Lorca ranks 34 out of 2,932. Before him are Saint Dominic (1170), Francis Xavier (1506), Charles II of Spain (1661), Anne of Austria (1601), Ibn Arabi (1165), and Julio Iglesias (1943). After him are Philip III of Spain (1578), Montserrat Caballé (1933), Luis Buñuel (1900), Roland (736), Charles III of Spain (1716), 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 Lope de Vega (1562), Quintilian (35), Pedro Calderón de la Barca (1600), Bartolomé de las Casas (1484), Alfonso X of Castile (1221), Lucan (39), Martial (40), Seneca the Elder (-54), Henry IV of Castile (1425), and Gaius Julius Hyginus (-64).

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