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Federico del Sagrado Corazón de Jesús García Lorca [a] [b] (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 ...
He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982, mostly for his masterpiece Cien años de soledad (1967; One Hundred Years of Solitude). He was the fourth Latin American to be so honored, having been preceded by Chilean poets Gabriela Mistral in 1945 and Pablo Neruda in 1971 and by Guatemalan novelist Miguel Ángel Asturias in 1967.
The Romancero gitano (often translated into English as Gypsy Ballads) is a poetry collection by Spanish writer Federico García Lorca.First published in 1928, it is composed of eighteen romances with subjects like the night, death, the sky, and the moon.
The poet in an article published in El País called Fortes "disturbing" for claiming that Lorcan poetry had been served as an ideological breeding ground for fascist poetry. [4] In other writings, Fortes had attacked Francisco Ayala , Antonio Muñoz Molina , Joaquín Sabina , Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer and Rafael Alberti , as fascist writers or ...
Adapted multiple Lorca poems to country blues songs in idiomatic English in the Kropotkins' album, which features a hand drawing of Lorca's face on the cover. Reginald Smith Brindle: 1975 "Four Poems of Garcia Lorca" Two songs, the latter for guitar, based on two Lorca poems Adivinanza de la Guitarra and Las Seis Cuerdas [48] 1982 "El Polifemo ...
The film shares its name with one of legendary gay Spanish poet, playwright and theater director Federico García Lorca’s unfinished works. Four pages of the document were written by the author ...
A major focus of his academic work was Arabic poetry, acting as a literary historian and critic as well as translator. As a Spanish Arabist, of course, he interpret Muslim culture generally. A. J. Arberry praised the "wide scholarship and literary judgement that has characterized Prof. Gómez's numerous contributions to Islamic studies."
García Cabrera wrote not only lyrical poetry, but also plays and political texts. In the 1920s, in the days of the Second Spanish Republic , García Cabrera had become active in politics as a member of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE), and in 1931 he ran for office in municipal elections as a representative of the Republican ...