Federico García Lorca

Federico García Lorca was born in 1898 in Fuente Vaqueros, near Granada, the son of a wealthy landowner and a schoolteacher. A musician before being a writer, he studied in Granada, then in 1919 moved into the Residencia de Estudiantes in Madrid, where he became friends with Dalí and Buñuel. His poems made him famous in 1928; he stayed in New York in 1929 and 1930. Under the Republic, he directed La Barraca, a university troupe that performed classical theatre in the countryside. He was killed by the Nationalists near Granada in August 1936, and his body has never been found.

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