Through this interesting post we will show you who is the well-known literary author Ian Gibson, his biography and his most important works.
Ian Gibson
Ian Gibson is a renowned literary author born in Dublin on April 21, 1939, his full name is Ian Keit Gibson Ritchie, since 1939 he became a national of Spain. He specialized in the contemporary history of Spain, in his career he became known above all for his works on Salvador Dalí, Antonio Machado, Federico García Lorca and Luis Buñuel, as well as his books on the dictatorial regime of General Franco and the Spanish Civil War.
Author bio
He was born on April 21, 1939, a member of a Protestant family in Dublin. His education was received at Newtown School in Waterford Ireland, a school that is not only based on good academic results, but also on measurable things, this will be of great importance throughout his life.
He continued his studies at Trinity College in Dublin, where he studied French and Spanish, at that time he coincided with a work by Federico García Lorca, although he did not understand much of the language, this text brought to his memory the collection of poems called Riders to the sea, written in 1904, by John Millington Synge; In just one year he managed to master the Spanish language, reading the first book called Azul by Rubén Dario, a Nicaraguan writer.
He traveled to Spain on his first trip in 1957, he did not know Franco, much less knew about the dictatorship, at that moment he fell in love with that country in all its extension.
By 1960 he graduated with a degree in Spanish and French literature from Trinity College, and by 1962 he began his career as a professor of Spanish at Queens University of Belfast in Ireland. In 1965 he made a trip to Granada with the intention of researching and obtaining material for the preparation of his doctoral thesis.
In 1968 he began to work at the University of London, where he served as professor of Hispanic literature. In 1972 he worked as a reader of modern Spanish literature.
By 1975, the same year that Franco died, Gibson retired from academia and devoted himself only to writing, then he traveled to France where he stayed for three years and in 1978 he settled in Spain. Living in Madrid he wrote the biography of Federico Garcia Lorca, in 1984 he was granted nationality and in 1991 he decided to settle in the Valley motivated by his attachment to the life of García Lorca.
He published the life of Rubén Darío in 2002, which allowed him to be elected as a member of the Nicaraguan academy of the Spanish language.
In 2004 he returned to Madrid and began the biography of Antonio Machado, installed in the Lavapiés neighborhood considered the capital of the world, in 2013 he claimed to be a bourgeois who lived in sparsely populated towns, unlike many artists, he preferred places little ones.
Ian Gibson has his family structured by his wife Carole Elliott and their two children and grandchildren, he is passionate about going out with them, he likes theater and ornithology, he has liked birds since he was a child so he has his favorites like the magpie.
Ian Gibson passionate about literature
ian gibson books
Ian Gibson has an extraordinary amount of publications, within them we will expose the following.
The nationalist repression of Granada in 1936 and the death of Federico García Lorca
It corresponds to the first book published by the author, where he narrates the death of Federico García Lorca, he wrote it while at the university and it was published in Spanish, in Paris in 1971, in 1979 a broader version was made, in 1996 a adaptation to be presented in the cinema under the name of death in Granada.
English Vice by Ian Gibson
In this work the author presents an investigation about the adequacy of discovering sex, punishment and the Victorian obsession.
In search of Jose Antonio
In this text, Ian Gibson deals with the life of José Antonio Primo de Rivera and his death at the hands of the Republicans when the Civil War began.
The night Calvo Sotelo was killed
In this writing the author tries to reveal how the assassination of Calvo Sotelo was, who was the leader of the monarchical right during the time that the Second Spanish Republic lasted.
Ian Gibson and the Paracuellos, how was it
Ian Gibson addresses the massacre of the Paracuellos, some 2400 prisoners in the model prison in Madrid, this event was carried out by republican militiamen in Spain between November and December 1936.
Federico García Lorca I from Fuente Cowboys to New York
This writing presents the first part of the life of Federico García Lorca.
Queipo of plain Seville, summer 1936
Poses of the life of Gonzalo Queipo de Llano, who was the author of the military uprising, which gave rise to the Spanish Civil War.
Federico García Lorca II from New York to Fuente grande
Presents in this second writing the continuation of the life of García Lorca.
Federico García Lorca. A Life by Ian Gibson
Ian Gibson proposes in this work a brief summary of the first two books that were dedicated to recounting the life of Federico García Lorca.
Guide to Granada by Federico Garcia Lorca
Ian Gibson presents in a very detailed way a tour of each of the most important spaces in García Lorca's life and his dark death, then makes an English translation published in 1992.
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Fire in the Blood. The New Spain
With this writing Ian Gibson supports a television series, where he presents a variety of natural spaces in Spain hand in hand with the desire to recover the time that was lost by wanting to appear in Spain from the dictatorship to democracy.
As a complement to this tour, I invite you to observe the following audiovisual content.
Life, Passion and Death of Federico García Lorca
The author presents in this text in a summarized way the life of García Lorca, emphasizing his love life and his homosexuality, which made him rejected and marginalized by society at that time, and also exposes the author's desire to always be of the side of the most needy.
The Wild Life of Salvador Dalí presented by Ian Gibson
In this work, he presents the life of Dalí, the friendship that united them and the work they did together with Luis Buñuel and García Lorca, presents the author's life trajectory with great humor and in refusal to capture any data that was not corroborable to through reliable sources.
Lorca – Dalí, the love that could not be
This work presents the friendship that existed between Lorca and Dalí, considered by the latter as tragic, the most striking thing about this writing is based on the similarities that existed in the literary analyzes of the authors, for many it is considered a novel.
The Orotomaniac: The Secret Life of Henry Spencer Ashbee
After having published the life and work of Lorca and Dalí, Ian Gibson dedicates himself to writing about the life of Spencer, a Victorian gentleman who in his time helped a needy woman with her children and when he had the disposition, he organized texts with risky themes.
Cela, the man who wanted to win
It tells the biography of the author Camilo José Cela and how he elaborated each of his writings.
Light luggage
Ian Gibson narrates in this writing the life and work of poetry in the generation of 98.
Four poets at war
It narrates the fidelity of the four poets: Juan Jiménez, Antonio Machado, Federico García Lorca and Miguel Hernández to the Second Republic.
The man who arrested García Lorca
Gibson dedicates this space to Ramón Luis Alonso, the man who arrested García Lorca and who participated in the restrictive actions of the Civil War.
Lorca and the gay world
This text deals with the intimate life of García Lorca, his loves, his first fruits, his heroic acts, he is considered a poet who suffers greatly due to his inclination.
Luis Bunuel. The forging of a universal filmmaker
For this space the author dedicates his lines to the life of Luis Buñuel, this writing brought Ian Gibson the Múñoz Suay award in 2014.
The Granada Poet by Ian Gibson
We close this tour with this publication of the author in the year 2015.
As we can see, the journey we have made through ian gibson books, a great variety that leaves us impressed by his ability to gather the biography of each of the characters mentioned and his passion for studying the life of Federico García Lorca, is one of those authors who presents us with a range of possibilities where we can choose the text with which we are going to delight.
Novels by Ian Gibson
Just as the author covers a large number of published books, the novels that we will mention below also fall within his creations.
South wind. Opofric memories of an Englishman saved by Spain
This is the first novel published by the author, it presents the life of Hill John through it, it uses certain imaginary resources for it, it was published in 2015, and it uses the testimonies within it, it is considered that it did not have a great boom since it is considered more as an entertainment novel.
I, Rubén Darío, posthumous memories of a King of poetry
Gibson presents through these lines the biography of Rubén Darío, he uses a medium, who narrates the story from beyond, takes each of the details of the author's life to show it in a real way.
Prim's Saloon by Ian Gibson
For this work, the author presents a political work, he talks about a journalist whose purpose is to investigate and bring to light the reality of the murder of his great friend Juan Prim y Prats, president and one of the men who had the most power in the whole world. country.
Lorca and the gay world
Author Overview
Taking a journey through life and each of Ian Gibson's works is extremely enriching, he is an author who clearly outlines his perspectives, in each work he let us see without hesitation what he wanted to expose, he is one of those authors that you read and want to know more about their publications.
Literature is a range of possibilities that allows us to enrich our knowledge and Ian Gibson is part of it.
Madrid 23-09-2015 Interview with the writer Ian Gibson Image Juan Manuel Prats