Eighty-five years ago today, on August 19th, 1936, Federico García Lorca—the Spanish avant-garde poet, playwright, and ardent socialist—was shot and killed by Nationalist militia before being buried in an unmarked mass grave somewhere outside Granada, where he remains to this day. A tortured genius who struggled to reconcile his public persona with his sexual identity, García…

Federico García Lorca predicted his own death in a poem. — Literary Hub