Federico del Sagrado Corazón de Jesús Garcíaa Lorca, known as Federico García Lorca, was a Spanish poet, playwright, and theatre director born on June 5, 1898, in Fuente Vaqueros, Granada, Spain. An emblematic member of the Generation of '27, García Lorca achieved international recognition by introducing the tenets of European movements such as symbolism, futurism, and surrealism into Spanish literature.

He initially rose to fame with his book of poems Romancero gitano (Gypsy Ballads, 1928), depicting life in Andalusia. His poetry combined traditional Andalusian motifs with avant-garde styles. After a stay in New York City from 1929 to 1930, which he documented in Poeta en Nueva York (Poet in New York, 1942), he returned to Spain to write his best-known plays, including Blood Wedding (1932), Yerma (1934), and The House of Bernarda Alba (1936).

Openly homosexual, García Lorca suffered from depression after his relationship with sculptor Emilio Aladrón Perojo ended. He also had a close emotional relationship with Salvador Dalí, who later claimed to have rejected García Lorca's sexual advances. García Lorca's assassination by Nationalist forces at the onset of the Spanish Civil War shocked the world, his body was never recovered, and the motives behind his murder remain a topic of debate.