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Ian Gibson

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Irish-Spanish historian, hispanist, biographer, and screenwriter (born 1939)

WritersBorn 1939 · age 87
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Ian Gibson is an Irish author and Hispanist known for his biographies of the poet Antonio Machado, the artist Salvador Dalí, the bibliographer Henry Spencer Ashbee, the filmmaker Luis Buñuel, and particularly his work on the poet and playwright Federico García Lorca, for which he won several awards, including the 1989...

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2021Gold Medal of Merit in the Fine Arts
2012Fernando Lara Prize
1989James Tait Black Memorial Prize
1989Duff Cooper Prize
1980Espejo de España Prize

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Ian Gibson is an Irish author and Hispanist known for his biographies of the poet Antonio Machado, the artist Salvador Dalí, the bibliographer Henry Spencer Ashbee, the filmmaker Luis Buñuel, and particularly his work on the poet and playwright 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.

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Born 1939 · age 87
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