Federico García Lorca es el poeta y dramaturgo español más famoso del mundo. Y quizás el desaparecido más llorado de la Guerra Civil de 1936-1939. En este cómic, Ian Gibson -su biógrafo y uno de los hispanistas de mayor prestigio internacional- y el reconocido ilustrador Quique Palomo han unido sus talentos para contar las peripecias de una vida tan apasionante como trágicamente truncada, desde el nacimiento del autor del Romancero gitano en el pueblo granadino de Fuente Vaqueros hasta, pasando por Madrid, Nueva York, Cuba y Argentina, su asesinato a manos de los sublevados fascistas en las afueras de la ciudad de la Alhambra. Siempre solidario con los que sufren, García Lorca fue un manantial permanente de creatividad capaz de alumbrar en solo veinte años una obra universalmente admirada. La historia que aquí se cuenta no dejará indiferente a nadie.
Authors
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.
