Federico García Lorca

  • BIRTH

    BIRTH
    Federico García Lorca was born in Fuentes Vaqueros, a town of Granada. His father was Federico García Rodríguez and her mother was Vicenta Lorca Romero.
  • CHILHOOD

    CHILHOOD
    He move to Almería with Antonio Rodríguez Espinosa but he got sick, so he returned to Granada.
  • YOUTH

    YOUTH
    At this time, he became interested in music and he played the piano.
    In 1914, he enrolled at the University of Granada to study Philosophy and Letters and Law. He also travelled a lot and that made him interested in literature.
  • HIS FIRST PLAYS

    HIS FIRST PLAYS
    Lorca published a Book of Poems, composed his first Suites, premiered El maleficio de la mariposa and developed other plays. Also during this stage, he met Juan Ramón Jiménez, who influenced his vision of poetry and with whom he became very friendly.
  • LOVE

    LOVE
    Federico publised "Oda a Salvador Dalí", a play written for Salvador Dalí with whom he had a little love story. In 1925 he met Emilio Aladrén with whom he would maintain a sentimental relationship until 1927.