The outspoken socialist was assassinated in 1936 amid a tumultuous time in Spanish history, most likely targeted by a nationalist militia.
García Lorca grew up in Andalusia, and he incorporated imagery from his childhood there into his poems. He studied under Nobel Prize winner Juan Ramón Jiménez and was close friends with Salvador Dalí. In addition to poems, García Lorca wrote plays. The outspoken socialist was assassinated in 1936 amid a tumultuous time in Spanish history, most likely targeted by a nationalist militia. You can read Federico García Lorca’s work in the books Selected Poems of Federico García Lorca, In Search of Duende and In The Green Morning, all available from publisher New Directions.