Federico García Lorca

Federico del Sagrado Corazón de Jesús García Lorca}} (5 June 1898 – 19 August 1936), known as Federico García Lorca|group= n}} ( ), 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... more