Federico Garcia Lorca

Federico Garcia Lorca, one of Spain's greatest modern poet and playwright, was born June 5, 1898 at Fuente Vaqueros in the Spanish province of Granada. He began writing poems in his late teens, reciting many of them in the local cafes. In 1919 he left to study law at the, Residencia de Estudiantes in Madrid. There he met film director Luis Bunuel and painter Salvador Dali. Lorca came to national prominence in 1927 when his play Mariana Pineda was …

…with a white-haired schoolmaster and two anarchist bullfighters, was driven to the village of Viznar at the foot of the Sierra Nevada Mountains. There at dawn they were executed by a right-wing firing squad. Although his remains are presumed to lie with those of hundreds of fellow victims in a shallow trench among the grove of olive trees adjacent to the Fuente Grande spring, the actual whereabouts of Lorca's grave are unknown to this day.