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Ian GibsonBiographyIan Gibson was born in Dublin and now holds Spanish nationality. Thanks to his books he has achieved the highest international recognition. In 1971, in Paris, the Spanish publishing company in exile Ruedo Ibérico issued La Muerte de García Lorca, a work which was awarded the Prix International de la Presse. In 1991 he published his monumental biography of Federico García Lorca (issued in two volumes in Spain and in a single volume in foreign editions). In 1997 Ian Gibson received further acclaim when his biography of surrealist painter Salvador Dalí was published by Faber and Faber in London. In 2001 Ian Gibson published his first novel, Viento del Sur, and shortly after, a book on Nicaraguan poet Rubén Darío. In April 2004 he published Dalí joven, Dalí GENIAL, a biography of the young Salvador Dalí. Following seven years of intensive work, Gibson published his definitive biography of the Spanish poet Antonio Machado in the spring of 2006. In 2009 he published a new biography: Lorca y el mundo gay which may be considered Gibson’s most deeply fellow-feeling and sincere contribution to the life of Lorca, thereby granting the poet the gift of a richly deserved and liberating “coming out”. At present he is working on an essential biography of Luis Buñuel (1900-1983), the great film director, to be published in 2011. Ian Gibson contributes regularly to El Pais, Público and El Periódico, two of Spain's most prestigious newspapers. Gibson lives with his wife Carole in Madrid. © Photo: Luis Magán (El País, 2005) |
