Federico García Lorca: From the Archive, Into the World

Authors: Laura García-Lorca, Öykü Tekten

Publisher: Center for the Humanities at CUNY Graduate Center (2025

In this intimate and deeply illuminating interview, Laura García-Lorca—niece of the poet, playwright, and artist Federico García Lorca—opens the doors to one of the most significant literary archives of the 20th century. Speaking with rare candor, she retraces the turbulent path of her family’s exile after the Spanish Civil War and reveals how, scattered across countries and decades, they fought to protect Federico’s manuscripts, letters, drawings, and personal effects from loss, censorship, and political erasure.

Enriched with never-before-seen photographs from the García-Lorca family album, this chapbook offers a rare visual and emotional dimension to the family story. These intimate images—snapshots of family gatherings, moments of exile, and the quiet persistence of daily life—add depth to a narrative shaped by art, memory, loss, and resilience.

Part biography, part cultural history, part personal testimony, this remarkable interview invites readers into the private world behind the Lorca family. It is an essential work for anyone interested in Lorca, the Spanish diaspora, archival survival, and the complex ways in which families carry and protect their past.