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Birthday in Fuente Vaqueros
He was borned in Fuente Vaqueros, small town 17 km west of Granada. His father, Federico García Rodríguez, was a prosperous landowner with a farm surrounding Granada and a comfortable villa in the heart of the city. García Lorca's mother, Vicenta Lorca Romero, was a teacher. https://www.google.es/maps/place/18340+Fuente+Vaqueros,+Granada/@37.2201711,-3.7892839,15z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0xd7200616903059b:0x14c987a3799fb9ea!8m2!3d37.2192439!4d-3.7834017?hl=es-es -
Move from Fuente Vaqueros to Granada with his family
When he was 11 yeras old, he moved with all his family to the city of Granada due to familiar reasons and because there was a place for Lorca to study. -
He started studying at the University of Granada
After graduating from secondary school, Lorca attended the University of Granada. During this time his studies included law, literature and composition. -
“El Rinconcillo”
It was in cafe Alameda, here, he meet with other young intellectual to discuss different topics, but mainly to talk about literature. -
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Travalled through Castilla y Leon and Galicia
He travelled through this two communities with Fernando de los Ríos to know them better.
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Moved to Residencia de estudiantes en Madrid
Some friends of “El Rincocillo” moved with him here. In that time, this Residencia de Estudiantes was full of intellectuals. He also befriended Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí and many other creative artists who were, or would become, influential across Spain. -
“Libro de poemas”
It collected work written from 1918 and selected with the help of his brother Francisco. They concern the themes of religious faith, isolation, and nature that had filled his prose reflections.
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27th generation
Some poets meet in Sevilla to conmerate Gongora’s 300 years death aniversary. This was the reunion that started the 27th generation. https://www.enforex.com/espanol/cultura/generacion-27.html -
Travelled to New York
He travelled to New York with Fernando de los Rios. They went to this city by the RMS Olympic, a sister liner to the RMS Titanic. In New York City, Rios started a lecture tour and García Lorca enrolled at Columbia University School of General Studies. He described this trip as one of the most useful experiencies he had ever had. -
Went from New York to La Habana
In La habana he discovered its culture and music and also worked in new proyects. -
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La Barraca ambulante
This was a theatre group, Lorca was the codirector with Eduardo Ugarte. It was funded by the Second Republic's Ministry of Education, and it was charged with touring Spain's rural areas in order to introduce audiences to classical Spanish theatre free of charge.
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Argentina
After the success of “Bodas de Sangre”, Lorca was invited to Buenos Aires, were he performed this theatre more than a 100 times. -
Bodas de Sangre
This was one of Lorca’s most successful works. It was a tragedy that was written in 1931 but wasn’t released until 1933.
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Returned to Spain
When Lorca came back to Spain, he manteined a high creative level, he finish somo of his works and revise anothers. -
Enemy of right parties
Due to his friendship with some socialists, he was considered an enemy of the right parties. -
La Casa de Bernarda Alba
It is a theatre written by Lorca in 1936. It couldn’t be represented until 1945, in Buenos Aires. It represents the drama of women in the villages of Spain. The House of Bernarda Alba was Lorca's last play, two months before Lorca's death during the Spanish Civil War.
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Huerta de San Vicente
During the Spanish civil war, Lorca was offered to exile from Spain and go to South America due to his job in the Republican side. He reject the offer and went to “Huerta de San Vicente”, where he met is family. https://www.google.es/maps/place/Huerta+de+San+Vicente/@37.7809819,-7.7621016,6z/data=!4m8!1m2!2m1!1shuerta+de+san+vicente!3m4!1s0xd71fcbe2206141b:0x218c96115c77c010!8m2!3d37.1706679!4d-3.6092696?hl=es-es -
Police arrested him
The ‘Guardia Civil’ arrested him at one of his friend’s house. -
Death
He was shot at 4:45 AM in the road that goes from Víznar to Alfacar. His body was never found, and it is believed that it is in a common pit. -
After his death
After he died, it was published ‘Primeras canciones’ and ‘Amor de Don Perlimplín con Belisa en su jardín’.
