author
Federico García Lorca
1898–1936
A brilliant Spanish poet and playwright, he helped reshape 20th-century literature with work that blends folklore, music, and startling emotional force. His life was cut short at the start of the Spanish Civil War, but poems and plays like Romancero gitano, Bodas de sangre, and La casa de Bernarda Alba still feel vivid and alive.
2 Audiobooks
Romancero gitano
by Federico García Lorca
Libro de poemas
by Federico García Lorca
About the author
Born on June 5, 1898, in Fuente Vaqueros near Granada, he became one of the best-known voices of Spain’s Generation of ’27. He wrote poetry, plays, and prose, and also worked in the theater as a director. Sources consistently describe his writing as deeply rooted in Andalusian culture while also being bold, modern, and inventive.
His best-known books and plays include Romancero gitano (Gypsy Ballads), Poeta en Nueva York (Poet in New York), Bodas de sangre (Blood Wedding), Yerma, and La casa de Bernarda Alba (The House of Bernarda Alba). A stay in New York and Cuba widened his vision, and his later work often turns sharper and darker, exploring loneliness, desire, injustice, and social pressure.
In August 1936, shortly after the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War, he was arrested near Granada and killed at the age of 38. Even with a career that lasted less than two decades, he is widely remembered as one of the greatest poets and dramatists in modern Spanish literature.