Ignacio Sánchez Mejías

Ignacio Sánchez Mejías
BornJune 6, 1891
Sevilla, Provincia de Sevilla, Andalucia, Spain
DiedAugust 13, 1934 (aged 43)
Sevilla, Provincia de Sevilla, Andalucia, Spain

Ignacio Sánchez Mejías (6 June 1891, Seville – 13 August 1934, Madrid) was a Spanish matador.

After his death following a goring (cornada) in the Plaza of Manzanares, he was memorialized by several poets of the Generation of '27, notably by Federico García Lorca in his Llanto por Ignacio Sánchez Mejías ("Lament for Ignacio Sánchez Mejías", sometimes translated under the title "Lament for the Death of a Bullfighter").

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