Lorca

                                                F. G. Lorca (Photo: Courtesy to Wikipeda)

Spanish poet Federico Garcia Lorca was born 1898, and tonight - already 19 August in Norway - it is terrible to think about how he was brutally shot by National militsia in Granada 19 August 1936 (i.e. after Civil war broke out in Spain).  

Better to dwell on Lorca's creations that have inspired many - including Leonard Cohen. 

I have not read much of Lorca but I really enjoyed listening to a 1957 NRK theatre edition of Dona Rosita the spinster, or in Norwegian Frøken Rosita, a play that was broadcasted again this summer. I liked especially well the role play part when the women are comforting each other by playing the various flowers actually speaking to each other... 

Thanks NRK!

For more on this play, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Do%C3%B1a_Rosita_la_soltera