by Ian Gibson · PUNTO DE LECTURA · tapa dura · ISBN 9788466369299
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«Ligero de equipaje» is the biography of Antonio Machado written by Ian Gibson, published by Punto de Lectura in hardcover (880 pages, in Spanish).
The book traces the poet's life from his birth in Seville to his exile and death in Collioure, passing through Soria, Baeza, Segovia and Madrid as a professor of French. It reviews his success with «Campos de Castilla», his involvement in Republican culture, and the events that marked his personal and literary career.
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.
