
Ian Gibson (born 21 April 1939) is an Irish author and Hispanist known for his biographies of Antonio Machado, Salvador Dalí, Henry Spencer Ashbee, and particularly his work on Federico García Lorca, for which he won several awards, including the 1989 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography. His work, La represión nacionalista de Granada en 1936 y la muerte de Federico García Lorca (The nationalistic repression of Granada in 1936 and the death of Federico García Lorca) was banned in Spain under Franco. Born into a Methodist Dublin family, he was educated at Newtown School in Waterford and graduated from Trinity College, Dublin. He became a professor of Spanish literature at Belfast and London universities before moving to Spain. His first novel, Viento del Sur (Wind of the South, 2001), written in Spanish, examines class, religion, family life, and public schools in British society through the fictitious autobiography of a character named John Hill, an English linguist and academic. It won favourable reviews in Spain. Gibson has also worked in television on projects centering around his scholarly work in Spanish history, having served as a historical consultant and even acting in one historical drama. He was granted a Spanish passport in 1984.
Series
Books

Lorca y el mundo gay
2011

Federico Garcia Lorca
A Life
1985

Vida pasion y muerte de Federico Garcia Lorca
1971

The Ballad of Halo Jones, Volume 2
1986

The Erotomaniac
2001

Vida y muerte de Federico García Lorca
2018

The Assassination of Federico Garcia Lorca
1983

Ligero de equipaje
Vida de Antonio Machado
2019

The Shameful Life of Salvador Dalí
1997

Lorca-Dalí
El amor que no pudo ser
1999

La berlina de Prim
2012

Cuatro poetas en guerra
2007

Cuatro poetas en guerra (novela gráfica)
Antonio Machado-Federico García Lorca-Miguel Hernández-Juan Ramón Jiménez
2022

Fire in the blood
The new Spain
1992