Ángel Ganivet: Granada's Writer and Diplomat
Ángel Ganivet, Granada's own writer-diplomat, wrote Idearium Español from Helsinki, drowned in Riga in 1898, and returned to San José cemetery in 1925.
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- Also known as
- Ángel Ganivet García, Angel Ganivet, Ganivet
Ángel Ganivet, a Spanish writer and thinker, was born in Granada on 13 December 1865. He won the consular corps examination in 1892 and was sent to Antwerp, then promoted to consul in 1895 and posted to Helsinki, where he wrote most of his literary work, including Cartas finlandesas. He is considered a precursor of the Generation of '98; Granada la bella appeared in 1896 and Idearium español in 1897. When the Helsinki consulate closed in early 1898 he moved to Riga, and he died in the Daugava river there on 29 November 1898.
His remains were repatriated to Spain in 1925 and have rested since in the San José cemetery in Granada. In the Alhambra Wood, a monument by the sculptor Juan Cristóbal González Quesada was inaugurated on 3 October 1921 at the Fuente del Tomate: a nude male figure holding a goat by the horns, with a bust of Ganivet on a column behind it.
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In their time
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Modern Granada
1808–today
French troops held Granada from 1810 until 17 September 1812 and mined the Alhambra's towers on leaving; eight fell. On Christmas night 1884 a Mw 6.7 earthquake wrecked villages around Alhama de Granada, though not the city itself. On 20 July 1936 a garrison revolt took the centre, and the Albaicín held out under artillery fire until the 23rd.
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Washington Irving
1783–1859 Historical figure
Washington Irving, the American writer who lodged in the Alhambra in 1829, and where to find his trace in Granada: a 1914 plaque and a 2009 bronze monument.
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Manuel de Falla
1876–1946 Historical figure
Manuel de Falla settled in Granada around 1920 and organised the 1922 Concurso de Cante Jondo at the Alhambra. His life and where to find his trace today.
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Ángel Barrios
1882–1964 Historical figure
Ángel Barrios, Granada composer and guitarist (1882-1964), whose family lived on Calle Real, was Falla's landlord. His life and where his trace remains.
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Federico García Lorca
1898–1936 Historical figure
Federico García Lorca, born near Granada in 1898, summered at the Huerta de San Vicente until 1936. His family moved to Granada in 1909; the house is a museum.
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Enrique Morente
1942–2010 Historical figure
Enrique Morente, the Albaicín-born flamenco singer who set Lorca to cante and recorded Omega with Lagartija Nick. His life and where Granada keeps his trace.
Undated
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Carmen de los Mártires
Monument
Seven-hectare Romantic estate on the Alhambra hill with free entry, roaming peacocks, five garden styles, and a Poets Route with verses by García Lorca.
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