Federico García Lorca

ian gibson

Esta coleccion nacio como una hermana mayor de la Serie general con el fin de acoger los « grandes temas y los grandes libros (que muchas veces han sido tambien libros grandes). Se inicio en 1986 con Los descubridores, de Daniel J. Boorstin (primer titulo de una trilogia que se completaria con Los creadores y Los pensadores, y uno de los libros mas vendidos de la editorial) y ha seguido publicandose hasta hoy con titulos como Carlos V y sus banqueros (edicion completa) de Ramon Carande; El conde duque de Olivares, de John Elliott; Diarios completos, de Manuel Azana; Federico Garcia Lorca, de lan Gibson; Historia de Espana, de Joseph Perez; Historia de Espana (3 vols.), de Ferran Soldevila; Historia de Espana (14 vols.), dirigida por John Lynch; Historia de America Latina (16 vols.), dirigida por Leslie Bethell; Historia del siglo XX, de Eric J. Hobsbawm; Los Origenes de la Inquisicion espanola, de B. Netanyahu; La riqueza y la pobreza de las naciones, de David S. Landes, etcetera. La biografia definitiva del poeta granadino, debida al hispanista irlandes nacionalizado espanol lan Gibson, en que, ademas de desvelar las claves de la muerte del poeta, relata todos los pormenores de la vida de Lorca y describe el contexto cultural y politico de su tiempo.

Genres biographyspainhistorypoetrynonfictionartbiography memoirpoliticsspanish civil warspanish literature

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First published January 1,1985

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Published: November 1, 1998 by Crítica
ISBN: 9788474238792
ASIN: 847423879X
Language: French

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Federico García Lorca

Federico del Sagrado Corazón de Jesús García Lorca (1898 - 1936), known as Federico García Lorca, was a Spanish poet, playwright, and theatre director.García Lorca achieved international recognition as an emblematic member of the Generation of 27, a...

About the author

ian gibson

Ian Gibson (born 21 April 1939) is an Irish author and Hispanist known for his biographies of Antonio Machado, Salvador Dalí, Henry Spencer Ashbee, and particularly his work on Federico García Lorca, for which he won several awards, including the 1989 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography. His work, La represión nacionalista de Granada en 1936 y la muerte de Federico García Lorca (The nationalistic repression of Granada in 1936 and the death of Federico García Lorca) was banned in Spain under Franco.

Born into a Methodist Dublin family, he was educated at Newtown School in Waterford and graduated from Trinity College, Dublin. He became a professor of Spanish literature at Belfast and London universities before moving to Spain. His first novel, Viento del Sur (Wind of the South, 2001), written in Spanish, examines class, religion, family life, and public schools in British society through the fictitious autobiography of a character named John Hill, an English linguist and academic. It won favourable reviews in Spain.

Gibson has also worked in television on projects centering around his scholarly work in Spanish history, having served as a historical consultant and even acting in one historical drama.

He was granted a Spanish passport in 1984.