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THE BIRTH OF FEDERICO
Federico García Lorca was born the 5th of June 1898 in Fuentevaqueros (Granada).
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FAMILY
In this year his brother Luis was born. Federico did not have the opportunity to spend much time with his brother Luis due to the death of his brother two years later. -
FAMILY
Luis died, but his brother Francisco was born.
Francisco García Lorca was a Spanish poet and playwright of the Generation of 1927. From an early age he came into contact with the arts through music and drawing. -
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ASQUEROSA
The family moved to Asquerosa today known as Valderrubio, also located in Granada. It was there that he attended to elementary school. -
ADOLESCENCE
He started to reside in Almeria with his former teacher. He also began his high school studies but before the end of the course he had to return to his family, due to an illness. -
GRANADA
In this year, the family moved to Granada, leaving the house of Asquerosa as a holiday home.
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FAMILY
In this year, his younger sister Isabel was born.
Isabel dedicated her life to being a teacher and a writer. -
STUDIES
In this year, he began to study Philosophy and Letters, as well as Law, at the University of Granada. He was also part of El Rinconcillo, a meeting place for artists from Granada, where he met Manuel de Falla. Manuel was one of the most important Spanish composers of the first half of the 20th century.
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TRAVEL AND HIS FIRST BOOK
Between 1916 and 1917 he made a series of trips around Spain with his fellow students, meeting Antonio Machado and which inspired his first book “Impresiones y paisajes” published in the year 1918.
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STUDENT LIFE IN MADRID
In this year, he moved to Madrid and settled in the Student Residence, coinciding with numerous literary and intellectuals. There, he began to flourish his literary activity with the publication of works such as “El maleficio de la mariposa” (1920) or “Libro de poemas” (1921). -
ODE TO SALVADOR DALÍ
In this year, he published an ode to Salvador Dalí in the magazine Occidente, a magazine which was founded and edited in 1923 by José Ortega and Gasset.
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HIS FIRST PICTORIAL EXHIBITION
In this year, in Barcelona he exhibited his first pictorial exhibition and frequented Buñuel and Dalí.
Buñuel was a Spanish film director, who after the exile of the Spanish civil war, he became naturalized Mexican.
Dalí is a twentieth-century painter. He is considered one of the greatest representatives of surrealism. -
GALLO MAGAZINE
Together with a group of intellectuals from Granada, he founded the Gallo magazine in 1928, of which only 2 copies were published. -
NEW YORK
In this year, he traveled to New York, expressing this trip in “Poeta en Nueva York”, which would be published after the author's death in 1940. -
“LA ZAPATERA PRODIGIOSA”
In this year, she returned to Spain, where she received the news that his popular poem "La Zapatera prodigiosa" was on stage.
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“LA BARRACA”
In this year, he founded the university theater group “La Barraca”, to bring theater to the people through plays of the Golden Age. -
HIS TRAVEL TO BUENOS AIRES AND SPAIN
In 1933 another trip to Buenos Aires increased his popularity with the premiere of “Bodas de Sangre”, a tragedy in verse and prose. On his return to Spain a year later he continued to publish several plays such as “Yerma” and “La casa de Bernarda Alba” (1936).
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FEDERICOS’S DEATH
He returned to Granada and he was arrested and shot for his liberal ideas.
https://elpais.com/diario/2009/12/10/cultura/1260399601_850215.html