Lorca 90
Ninety years after the murder of Federico García Lorca, the Association publishes his complete literary works in a digital edition.
1936–2026 · Living memory
Why Lorca, from Galicia
Lorca wrote six poems in Galician. They are few, but enough for his work to belong to this language too: Editorial Nós published them in Santiago de Compostela in 1935, and they have been part of Galician literature ever since. This project starts there.
The edition
Federico García Lorca · Obra literaria completa is the first major edition of the Mestre Mateo Digital Library. It is arranged in seven volumes:
- I. Poetry, 1918–1928 — Libro de poemas, Suites, Poema del cante jondo, Primeras canciones, Canciones and Romancero gitano.
- II. Poetry, 1929–1936 — Poeta en Nueva York, Tierra y luna, Diván del Tamarit, Llanto por Ignacio Sánchez Mejías, Seis poemas galegos, the sonnets, the odes and the uncollected poems.
- III–V. Theatre — early plays, farces, the “impossible theatre”, tragedies and unfinished work.
- VI. Prose.
- VII. Lectures, addresses and tributes.
Publication begins with Volume VII. The correspondence will appear later in a series of its own.
Chronology
- 1898Born in Fuente Vaqueros (Granada) on 5 June.
- 1918Publishes his first book, Impresiones y paisajes.
- 1919Moves into the Residencia de Estudiantes in Madrid.
- 1921Libro de poemas.
- 1927Canciones. Premiere of Mariana Pineda in Barcelona and an exhibition of his drawings at the Galeries Dalmau.
- 1928Romancero gitano (Gypsy Ballads).
- 1929Travels to New York and, in 1930, to Cuba.
- 1931Poema del cante jondo.
- 1932Founds the university theatre company La Barraca and visits Galicia for the first time.
- 1933Premiere of Bodas de sangre (Blood Wedding). Travels to Buenos Aires.
- 1934Premiere of Yerma.
- 1935Llanto por Ignacio Sánchez Mejías. Editorial Nós publishes the Seis poemas galegos in Santiago.
- 1936Finishes La casa de Bernarda Alba. He is murdered in August, between Víznar and Alfacar.
Alongside the texts, the project brings together an album of photographs, drawings, manuscripts, scores and posters, arranged by type of document and by date.
Calendar
News
Federico García Lorca 90: the complete literary works
The Mestre Mateo Digital Library will publish the complete literary works of Federico García Lorca on 27 December 2026, the same day the Seis poemas galegos were published in 1935.
An album for looking at Lorca
Photographs, drawings, manuscripts and scores gathered in a single viewer.