Pedro Garfias Zurita (May 27, 1901 – August 9, 1967) was a Spanishpoet.

Garfias was born inSalamanca,Spain, but spent his childhood and youth in the Andalusian cities ofSeville andCórdoba. In 1918 he moved to Madrid in order to study Law at University; however, he did not finish these studies. That year, Pedro Garfias, along with the young poets Guillermo de Torre, César A. Comet and José Rivas Panedas wrote the firstManifiesto Ultraísta (Ultraist Manifesto). It was published in the Seville-based literary magazineGrecia in 1919.^[1] In the 1920s, along with other poets, he founded the poetry magazinesHorizonte andTableros.

Pedro Garfias was one of the Spanish poets of theGeneration of 1927 who was more enthusiastic regarding all the avant-garde movements, asUltraism. His first book,El Ala del Sur (Southern Wing, though can be translated as Southern Side) was published in Seville in 1926. He joined thePartido Comunista de España (Spanish Communist Party) when theSpanish Second Republic arrived. In 1938, when theSpanish Civil War was already in its second year, he was given the National Award of Literature forPoesías de la Guerra Civil Española. One of his more popular poems isAsturias, that was made into a song by the Spanish singerVíctor Manuel.

Garfias was forced intoexile during theSpanish Civil War, along with other artists, writers, and intellectuals.

Garfias died inMexico in 1967. A bronze monument stands in his honor inGuadalajara,Mexico.

• El Ala del Sur (roughly: "Southern Wing", 1926)
• Poesías de la Guerra Civil Española ("Poetry of the Spanish Civil War", 1938)
• Primavera en Eaton Hasting ("Spring in Eaton Hasting", 1939)

• Guadalajara government web site "Puntos de Interes" (Scroll to "Chapultapec Avenue" for monument location)
• Encyclopædia BritannicaArchived 2005-03-23 at theWayback Machine

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