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, the bibliographer

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, the filmmaker

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. and particularly his work on the poet and playwright

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, for which he won several awards, including the 1989

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for biography. His work, ''La represión nacionalista de Granada en 1936 y la muerte de Federico García Lorca'' (''The Nationalist Repression of Granada in 1936 and the Death of Federico García Lorca'') was banned in Spain under

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. Born in Dublin to a

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family, he was educated at Newtown School in

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and graduated from

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. He taught modern Spanish literature at

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and the

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before moving to Spain. His first novel, ''Viento del Sur'' (''Wind of the South'', 2001), written in Spanish, examines class, religion, family life, and public schools in British society through the fictitious autobiography of a character named John Hill, an English linguist and academic. It won favourable reviews in Spain. Gibson has also worked in television on projects centering on his scholarly work in Spanish history, having served as a historical consultant and even acting in one historical drama. He was granted a Spanish passport (citizenship) 1984. Gibson narrated a two-part documentary for BBC2 on the Great Famine of Ireland in 1995.

Works

* ''La represión nacionalista de Granada en 1936 y la muerte de Federico García Lorca'' (1971) * ''En busca de José Antonio'' (1981) * ''Un irlandés en España'' (1982) * ''La noche que mataron a Calvo Sotelo'' (1982) * ''Paracuellos, cómo fue'' (1983) * ''Guía de la Granada de Federico García Lorca'' (1989) * ''España'' (1993) * ''Vida, pasión y muerte de Federico García Lorca'' (1998) * ''La vida desaforada de Salvador Dalí'' (1998) * ''Lorca-Dalí, el amor que no pudo ser'' (1999) * ''Viento del sur'' (2001) * ''Yo, Ruben Darío'' (2002) * ''Cela, el hombre que quiso ganar'' (2004) * ''Ligero de equipaje'' (2006) * ''Cuatro poetas en guerra'' (2007) * ''Lorca y el mundo gay'' (2009) * ''La berlina de Prim'' (2012),

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, 2012 * ''Luis Buñuel. La forja de un cineasta universal (1900-1938)'' (2013) *''Aventuras ibéricas'' (2017) *''Los últimos caminos de Antonio Machado'' (2019)

References

Short biography

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Gibson, Ian 1939 births Living people Irish biographers Irish male non-fiction writers Irish male writers Irish emigrants to Spain Spanish people of Irish descent Irish writers Spanish male writers Spanish biographers Male biographers Irish Hispanists James Tait Black Memorial Prize recipients Historians of fascism People educated at Newtown School, Waterford Alumni of Trinity College Dublin