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Publication
Biblioteca Azul (2014)
Description
Known primarily as a poet and dramatist, Spanish writer Federico Garcia Lorca published four books before his early death in the Spanish Civil War. This biography gives an account of his family, his homosexuality and his mysterious death, as well as tracing his literary development.
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Federico Garcia Lorca was executed by anti-republican rebels during the Spanish Civil War, he was already one of the world's most celebrated poets and playwrights. A biography Federico García Lorca, Irish author and Hispanist known for his biographie of Salvador Dalí was published in 1997 to much
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critical acclaim. He provides a full narrative of Dalí's life as artist and as uninhibited exhibitionist, from his wild and troubled youth through his often rollickingly funny adventures in Paris, New York, and Hollywood. Here ln this book, has been written about Lorca (1898-1936) than about any other Spanish writer except Cervantes, but this detailed biography--originally published in Spanish in two volumes (1985, 1987) and based on hundreds of interviews and on hitherto unavailable manuscripts and letters--is the major work on the great Andalusian poet and playwright. He explores Lorca's background, schooling, affairs, loves and friendships (with Bunuel, Dali, Spanish composer and pianist Manuel de Falla, and Neruda, among others), his trips to New York, Cuba and Argentina, shows us that Lorca's life was as remarkable as his work. Federico García Lorca Socialist symbol, trajectory in the theater as a lifelong search for stereotype of Lorca as an active socialist always prone to take contemporary Spanish writers. Show Less
Awards
James Tait Black Memorial Prize (Winner — Biography — 1989)
Pol Roger Duff Cooper Prize (Winner — 1989)