Federico García Lorca (1898-1936) was one of Spain’s most important poets and playwrights, as well as a director and actor. He was a pioneering creator and a leading figure of the Generation of ’27, also known as the Silver Age of Spanish literature. His childhood was calm and happy, but in adulthood he exhibited depressive behaviour, possibly exacerbated by anxiety over his attempts to hide his homosexuality. In 1932, he founded La Barraca, a theatre company that toured rural parts of Spain, bringing works by great writers such as Calderón de la Barca and Cervantes to the country’s farming communities. He was influenced by important artists of his time, such as Dali, Buñuel, and Rafael Alberti, with whom he also formed friendships. His empathetic plays vividly depict the miseries and sufferings of the poor, social oppression, the Romany lifestyle, love, pride, and violent death. He himself met a violent end, murdered on account of his left-wing views.

 

A short list of his plays: 
The shoemaker's prosperous wife, Dona Rosita the spinster, rural trilogy (Blood wedding, Yerma, The house of Bernarda Alba).

 

Fortune comes to those who least expect it.(The house of Bernarda Alba) 

 

Let's go and find a corner where I can love you forever.(Blood wedding)

 

When you cannot fight the sea,
the easiest thing to do
is to turn your back on it so you cannot see it. (The house of Bernarda Alba)