Federico García Lorca was a poet and playwright. Assigned to the generation of 27, he was the most influential and popular poet in 20th century Spanish literature. As a playwright, he is considered one of the peaks of twentieth-century Spanish theater.
He was born on June 5, 1898 in the Granada municipality of Fuente Vaqueros, into a family with a comfortable economic position, and was baptized as Federico del Sagrado Corazón de Jesús García Lorca; 3 his father was the landowner Federico García Rodríguez (1859-1945) and his mother, Vicenta Lorca Romero (1870-1959), his father's second wife, 4 a school teacher who fostered her son's literary taste. His first home, in Fuente Vaqueros, is a museum.
In 1909, when he was eleven years old, the family moved to the city of Granada. In his adolescence, he became more interested in music than in literature, he studied piano with Antonio Segura Mesa and among his friends at university he was known more as a musician than as a new writer.
