In 19, Lorca traveled to New York City and Cuba. In 1928, his poetry collection Romancero Gitano brought Lorca far-reaching fame it was reprinted seven times during his lifetime. During this period, Lorca also became part of a group of artists known as Generación del 27, which included Salvador Dalí and Luis Buñuel, who exposed the young poet to Surrealism. In 1922, Lorca and the composer Manuel de Falla organized the first cante jondo, or “deep song,” festival in Granada the deep song form permeated his poems of the early 1920s. The next year, he published Libro de poemas, a compilation of poems based on Spanish folklore. His first full-length play, El Maleficio de la mariposa, was produced there in 1920. That same year, he traveled to Madrid, where he remained for the next decade. Lorca published his first book, Impresiones y Viajes, in 1919. His father, Federico García Rodríguez, was a landowner, and his mother, Vicenta Lorca Romero, was a teacher. He was born June 5, 1898, in Fuente Vaqueros, a small town a few miles from Granada. Federico García Lorca is one of the most important Spanish poets and dramatists of the twentieth century.
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