Federico garcia lorca biografia wikipedia espanol

Playwright and poet Federico García Lorca was arrested and killed on the orders of rightwing military authorities in Granada, according to newly released documents that shed light on the death of one of the highest-profile victims of the Spanish civil war.

The documents, written in 1965 at the Granada police headquarters and obtained by the Guardian, are the first ever admission by Franco-era officials of their involvement in the death in 1936 of the author of Blood Wedding and the House of Bernarda Alba.

The circumstances surrounding García Lorca’s death and the whereabouts of his remains continue to be one of the great mysteries of Spain’s recent history.

Until now, it was thought that the Granada-born poet was executed by a rightwing firing squad along with three others.

The documents published on Thursday relate to an inquiry into García Lorca’s death by French author Marcelle Auclair in the 1960s.