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Birth.
Born June 5 1898 in Vaqueros Spain. -
Brothers and Sisters.
He had a brother named Luis that died when federico was four. Over all federico had four other sibilings. -
Traveling and staying.
In 1909, when he was 11, the boy moved to the city of Granada. For the rest of his life, he mantianed the importance of living close to the natural world, praising his upbringing in the country. -
School to colege and studies.
After graduating in 1915 from secondary school, he attended Sacred Heart University. During this time his studies included law, literature and composition. Throughout his adolescence he felt a deeper affinity for theatre and music than literature, training fully as a classical pianist, his first artistic inspirations arising from the scores of Debussy, Chopin and Beethoven. -
Persuasion And Plays.
Don Fernando de los Rios persuaded Garcia Lorca's parents to allow the boy to enroll at the progressive, Oxbridge-inspired Residence de students in Madrid in 1919. He met alot of influential people there. Becoming close to playwright Eduardo Marquina and Gregorio Martinez Sierra, the Director of Madrid's Teatro Eslava. -
First Book.
His first book, Impresiones y Viajes (1919) was inspired by a trip to Castile with his art class in 1917. -
moving to madrid.
In 1919, García Lorca traveled to Madrid, where he remained for the next fifteen years. Giving up university, he devoted himself entirely to his art. He organized theatrical performances, read his poems in public, and collected old folksongs. -
Some plays and Poems.
Lorca's first theatrical production, The Butterfly's Evil Spell (1920), opened at the Eslava Theater in Madrid, it gave Lorca his first taste of theatrical fame. In the 1920s García Lorca collaborated with Manuel de Falla, becoming an expert pianist and guitar player. -
Book of Poems.
He published his first book of poems in 1921, and seven years later, his book of poetry Romancero Gitano or The Gypsy Ballads made him famous throughout Spain. The public soon labeled Lorca as the "Gypsy poet", which displeased Lorca, and perhaps partly to dispel this myth. -
Organized the first "Cante Jondo" festival
In 1922, García Lorca organized the first "Cante Jondo" festival in which Spain's most famous "deep song" singers and guitarists participated. The deep song form permeated his poems of the early 1920s. During this period, García Lorca became part of a group of artists known as Generación del 27, which included Salvador Dalí and Luis Buñuel, who exposed the young poet to surrealism. -
The Gypsy ballads
In 1928, his book of verse, Romancero Gitano ("The Gypsy Ballads"), brought García Lorca far-reaching fame; it was reprinted seven times during his lifetime. -
Gypsy Poet
The public soon labeled Lorca as the "Gypsy poet", which displeased Lorca, and perhaps partly to dispel this myth, he moved to New York in 1929 to study English at Columbia University where he came into contact with amateur theatre groups and professinal repertory companies. The trip also inspired a book of poetry, Poet in New York, which was published posthumously. The poet's favorite neighborhood was Harlem; he loved African-American spirituals, which reminded him of Spain's "deep songs." -
Back to spain
Lorca returned to Spain in 1930 and formed his own theatre company. Composed mostly of students, "La Barraca" toured the countryside giving free performances of the Spanish classics, including the works of Lope de Vega, Pedro Calderón de la Barca , and Miguel de Cervantes. The company also produced the three "rural tragedies" on which Lorca's theatrical reputation rests. -
Participated in the Second Ordinary Congress of the Federal Union of Hispanic Students
participated in the Second Ordinary Congress of the Federal Union of Hispanic Students in November of 1931. The congress decided to build a "Barraca" in central Madrid in which to produce important plays for the public. "La Barraca," the traveling theater company that resulted, toured many Spanish towns, villages, and cities performing Spanish classics on public squares. -
Blood Wedding
Lorca spent much of his time working on plays, including a folk drama trilogy Bodas de Sangre (Blood Wedding) . -
Yerma
he wrote Yerma in 1934 -
Different Poems.
Unfortunately, Lorca was to be an early casualty of the Spanish Civil War. Intellectuals were considered dangerous by Franco's Nationalists, and in the early morning of August 19, 1936, along with a schoolmaster and two bullfighters, Lorca was dragged into a field at the foot of the Sierra Nevada Mountains, shot, and thrown into an unmarked grave. He had only finished the first draft of The House of Bernard Alba two months earlier and had recently told a Spanish journalist. -
The house of Bernarda
he wrote La Casa de Bernarda Alba (The House of Bernarda Alba) in 1936. -
Death
August 19, 1936 is when h ehad died. -
burned writings.
Lorca's writings were outlawed and burned in Granada's Plaza del Carmen. Even his name was forbidden. The young poet quickly became a martyr, an international symbol of the politically oppressed, but his plays were not revived until the 1940's. -
greatist Spanish Poet.
Certain bans on his work remained in place until as late as 1971. Today, Lorca is considered the greatest Spanish poet and dramatist of the 20th Century.
