Federico García Lorca
Federico García Lorca (1898-1936), Spanish poet and dramatist. A native of Andalusia, he abandoned his musical studies for literature and published his first book of poems in 1921. His style became more con-temporary after he went to New York for a year in 1929. On his return to Spain he founded a theatre company, for which he wrote the plays Blood Wedding (1933) and The House of Bernarcla Alba (1936). He was murdered by fascist troops during the Spanish Civil War. Garcia Marquez, Gabriel (1928). Colombian novelist and writer. Although he was brought up in poverty in a remote jungle village, Garcia Marquez was able to study law at university. From 1948 he worked as a journalist, a career that took him to Europe, Cuba, and the US. He published his first book of stories in 1955 and the major novel In Evil Hour in 1962. Unpopular with the Colombian government because of his left-wing views, he spent the 1960’s and 1970’s abroad. His complex masterpiece One Hundred Years of Solitude appeared in 1967 and was heralded as a landmark in South American literature. Following the award of the Nobel Prize in 1982, he returned to Colombia on the personal invitation of the president. Subsequent works include Love in a Time of Cholera (1985) and The General in His Labyrinth (1989).
