Federico del Sagrado Corazón de Jesús
García Lorca, known as Federico García
Lorca 5 June 1898 – 19 August 1936) was
a Spanish poet, playwright, and theatre director.
García Lorca
achieved international recognition as an emblematic member of the Generation of
'27, a
group consisting of mostly poets who introduced the tenets of European
movements (such as symbolism, futurism, and surrealism) into Spanish
literature. He was executed by
Nationalist forces at the beginning of the Spanish Civil War. His body has
never been found. In 2008, a
Spanish judge opened an investigation into Lorca's death. The García Lorca
family eventually dropped objections to the excavation of a potential gravesite
near Alfacar, but no human remains were found.
