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Federico Garcia Lorca
Federico Garcia Lorca was many things in course of his life. He was a playwright, a poet, a musician, a scholar, a homosexual and a martyr. Lorca's life began in 1898 in the village of Fuente Vaqueros, just outside the Spanish city of Granada. He developed artistically at a very young age, studying music as a child and writing poetry starting in his teen years. He went off to The University of Madrid as a young man to study law, but he eventually dropped this pursuit in favor of the arts. He published his first book of poetry in 1921 and became famous in Spain in 1927 with the publication of his book of poetry Romancero Gitano.
While living in Madrid, Lorca began to associate with a group known as the Generation of '27, a group of experimental artists who worked in all different kinds of art forms. Lorca found himself struggling with his repressed homosexuality around this time, finding it harder and harder to keep it hidden from his family and......

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