His early successes in poetry lead him to move to Madrid, where he attended university and lived in the Residencia de Estudiantes “Students Residence”, where became close friends with other contemporary artists such as the surrealist painter Salvador Dalí and filmmaker Luis Buñuel.īesides his poetry, he stood out as a play writer. He studied law, literature and composition at the University of Granada, but had a strong affinity for the arts from early on. Although some had argued that Lorca was not “an A student” during his adolescence, he dove and lived for books his entire life. He was one of the most well-known representatives of the Generation of the ’27, a group of artists that shaped Spanish arts, music and literature between 19. Frederico Garcia Lorca Granada, 1898 - 1936įederico García Lorca is one of Spain most famous poets and his work has trascended above and beyond Spanish and Spanish-American literature.
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