Federico García Lorca: A Life

Ian Gibson (born 21 April 1939) is an Irish author and Hispanist renowned for his award-winning biographies of Spanish cultural figures, particularly Federico García Lorca, Salvador Dalí, Antonio Machado, and Luis Buñuel. His seminal work Federico García Lorca: A Life (1989) won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and Duff Cooper Prize, while his first book on Lorca's death was banned in Franco's Spain. He holds Spanish citizenship since 1984 and continues to live and write in Spain. Read more →