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García Lorca

American  
[gahr-see-uh lawr-kuh, gahr-thee-ah lawr-kah, -see-ah] / gɑrˈsi ə ˈlɔr kə, gɑrˈθi ɑ ˈlɔr kɑ, -ˈsi ɑ /

noun

  1. Federico 1899–1936, Spanish poet and dramatist.


García Lorca British  
/ ɡarˈθia ˈlɔrka /

noun

  1. See Lorca 1

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“One thing that I’ll always be eternally grateful to him for . . . is he introduced me to García Lorca when I was a kid,” his son later said.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 28, 2025

Poetic in ways that are vividly theatrical, this drama comes to us through an imagination shaped by the legacies of Federico García Lorca and María Irene Fornés.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 26, 2023

I once came across him stretched out on the floor of a bookstore in Portland, Ore., with a Spanish dictionary in one hand and the complete works of Federico García Lorca in the other.

From Washington Post • Apr. 11, 2023

"As the great poet Federico García Lorca said: ‘Every step we take on earth brings us to a new world.’"

From Reuters • Feb. 7, 2023

When we’re ready to rest, we have tapas at one of the cafés on the Plaza de Santa Ana, next to a statue of the poet and playwright Federico García Lorca.

From "Across So Many Seas" by Ruth Behar

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