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Cuatro poetas en guerra
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112 pages, Paperback
Published June 5, 2024
About the author
Ian Gibson
256 books99 followersIan 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.
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.
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May 29, 2025
Releer este libro en formato cómic me ha devastado. Siguen saltándoseme las lágrimas. Miguelito, Lorca y Machado siempre conmigo (hoy, 29 de mayo, leo este libro y me entero de que en este día también murió Juan Ramón. Este año estoy teniendo muchas coincidencias literarias).
June 8, 2024
La versión cómic de esta novela gráfica resulta ser un material didáctico excepcional. Por supuesto, entra a formar parte de esos libros que pretendo utilizar en algún momento como profesora de Lengua Castellana y Literatura. Tiene un precio asequible, no es muy largo y es bastante ameno de leer. Sin duda, se deben seguir fomentando publicaciones así para hacer llegar a todos los lugares estas historias tan importantes sobre figuras emblemáticas de nuestro país.
August 13, 2025
Novela gráfica que resume el hachazo de la guerra civil en las figuras de Machado, Miguel Hernández, Juan Ramón y Lorca.
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