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Ian Gibson

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Born: April 20 1939

Ian Gibson 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 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 , 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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Ian Gibson

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Books from Ian Gibson

Vida y muerte de Federico García Lorca

Federico Garcia Lorca: A Life

Judge Dredd: The Complete Case Files 12

The Shameful Life of Salvador Dalí

Ligero de equipaje: Vida de Antonio Machado

Lorca-Dalí. El amor que no pudo ser. La apasionante y trágica amistad de dos colosos de la España del siglo XX

Cuatro poetas en guerra

Vida, pasion y muerte de Federico Garcia Lorca 1898-1936

Ligero de equipaje: La vida de Antonio Machado

Lorca y el mundo gay: Caballo azul de mi locura

Judge Dredd: The Complete Case Files 36

Paracuellos: cómo fue

Science, Politics, and ME

Atlas Ilustrado De La Historia De España

Benito Juárez (Protagonistas de la Civilización, #24)

Rembrandt (Protagonistas de la Civilización, #22)

El hombre que delató a García Lorca: Ramón Ruiz Alonso y el asesinato de García Lorca

A Balada de Halo Jones - Volume 1

The77 Vol. 1

Viento del sur