Born: 5-Jun-1898
Birthplace: Fuente Vaqueros, Granada, Spain
Died: 18-Aug-1936
Location of death: Viznar, Granada, Spain
Cause of death: Execution

Gender: Male
Religion: Roman Catholic
Race or Ethnicity: Hispanic
Sexual orientation: Gay
Occupation: Poet, Playwright

Nationality: Spain
Executive summary: Lament for a Bullfighter

Spain's premier 20th century poet and playwright, executed by Nationalists during the Spanish Civil War.

Father: (landowner)
Mother: (teacher)
Boyfriend: Salvador Dali (dated 1925-28)

    University: BA, University of Granada

    Shot: Firing Squad 18-Aug-1936
    Spanish Ancestry

Is the subject of books:
Federico García Lorca: A Life, 1989, BY: Ian Gibson
Lorca: A Dream of Life, 1998, BY: Leslie Stainton

Author of books:
Impresiones y Paisajes (1918)
Libro de Poemas (1921, poetry)
Canciones (1926, poetry)
Romancero Gitano (1928, poetry)
Poema del Cante Jondo (1931, poetry)
Llanto por Ignacio Sánchez Mejías (1935, poetry)
Seis Poemas Galegos (1935, poetry)
Poeta en Nueva York (1940, poetry)
Divan del Tamarit (1940, poetry)
Suites (1983, poetry)
Sonetos del Amor Oscuro (1984, poetry)

Wrote plays:
El Maleficio de la Mariposa (1920)
Mariana Pineda (1927)
La Zapatera Prodigiosa (1930)
Así que Pasen Cinco Años (1931)
El Amor de don Perlimplín con Belisa en su Jardín (1933)
Bodas de Sangre (1933)
Yerma (1934)
Doña Rosita la Soltera (1935)
La Casa de Bernarda Alba (1936)

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