ro Gitano and seems to reflect Lorca’s personal suffering. Was Garca-Lorca political? No. Although he sympathized with the Liberals and was mildly active, he was a writer, nota politician. Why did they kill him? It was a time of great upheaval in Spain. Franco’s forces seem to feel that intellectuals andwriters were a threat and forced many to flee. Garca-Lorca was unfortunate to be inGranada at that time and was executed as an enemy. There has been some contention thatit could have also been motivated by the fact that he was homosexual. Federico Garca Lorca was born in Fuente Vaqueros, Granada on the 5th of June, 1898and died the 19th of August, 1936. His life spanned the years between the Year ofDisaster and the Spanish Civil War which ultimately victimized him. He travelledthroughout Spain and America, principally Argentina, living and writing some of the mostbeautiful poetry ever written. His poetry has been translated into a dozen languages andhis name is known worldwide. His personal life is the subject of much debate now, relatingto his tendencies and friends. This page is dedicated to his poetry, written by him for us toenjoy instead of dissecting his personality. Lorca's poetry and plays combine elements of Andalusion folklore with sophisticated andoften surrealistic poetic techniques, cut across all social and educational barriers. Worksinclude: Thus Five Years Pass, The Public, Dona Rosita. He is toted to have succeeded inthe creation of a viable poetic idiom for the stage, superior to the works of hiscontemporaries, Yeats, Eliot and Claudel. August 9, 1936, Falangist soldiers dragged the Spanish poet and playwright FedericoGarcia Lorca into a field, shot him and tossed his body into an unmarked grave... Franco'sgovernment tried to obliterate Lorca's memory. His books were prohibited, his nameforbidden. Lorca and his good friend, film director Luis Buuel One of the first and most famous casualties of the Spanish C...
