Federico García Lorca

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Born	June 5, 1898 • Spain
Died	August 18, 1936 or August 19, 1936 • Spain
Notable Works	“Blood Wedding” • “Divan del Tamarit” • “El amor de don Perlimplín con Belisa en su jardínEl” • “El público” • “Impressions and Landscapes” • “La zapatera prodigioso” • “Lament for the Death of a Bullfighter” • “Libro de poemas” • “Poet in New York” • “The Butterfly’s Evil Spell” • “The Gypsy Ballads” • “The House of Bernarda Alba” • “Yerma”
Movement / Style	Generation of 1927

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