Federico García Lorca Gets Google Homepage Doodle

Google’s homepage in Spain is currently showing a doodle honoring Spanish poet Federico García Lorca’s 115th birthday. García Lorca, executed by Nationalist forces in the Spanish Civil W...
Federico García Lorca Gets Google Homepage Doodle
Written by Chris Crum
  • Google’s homepage in Spain is currently showing a doodle honoring Spanish poet Federico García Lorca’s 115th birthday.

    García Lorca, executed by Nationalist forces in the Spanish Civil War, was known as a member of the Genration of ’27. In addition to poetry, he wrote a number of plays, a film script, and opera. His work also inspired a great deal of poetry, music, theater, film and television by others. His list of poetry collections is as follows (via Wikipedia):

    • Impresiones y paisajes (Impressions and Landscapes 1918)
    • Libro de poemas (Book of Poems 1921)
    • Poema del cante jondo (Poem of Deep Song; written in 1921 but not published until 1931)
    • Suites (written between 1920 and 1923, published posthumously in 1983)
    • Canciones (Songs written between 1921 and 1924, published in 1927)
    • Romancero gitano (Gypsy Ballads 1928)
    • Odes (written 1928)
    • Poeta en Nueva York (written 1930 – published posthumously in 1940, first translation into English as The Poet in New York 1940)
    • Llanto por Ignacio Sánchez Mejías (Lament for Ignacio Sánchez Mejías 1935)
    • Seis poemas gallegos (Six Galician poems 1935)
    • Sonetos del amor oscuro (Sonnets of Dark Love 1936, not published until 1983)
    • Lament for the Death of a Bullfighter and Other Poems (1937)
    • Primeras canciones (First Songs 1936)
    • The Tamarit Divan (poems written 1931-4 and not published until after his death in a special edition of Revista Hispanica Moderna in 1940).
    • Selected Poems (1941)

    View more recent Google doodles here.

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