was published posthumously as La Copla Popular Española. In popular culture Samuel West portrays Brenan in the 1995 British biographical film Carrington about the life of the English painter Dora Carrington, written and directed by Christopher Hampton based on the book Lytton Strachey by Michael Holroyd. Matthew Goode portrays Brenan in the 2003 Goya Award winning Spanish film Al sur de Granada, written and directed by Fernando Colomo, based on the 1957 autobiographical book South from Granada. Notes References Xan Fielding, Best of Friends. The Brenan–Partridge Letters (editor 1986; correspondence with Partridge) Jonathan Gathorne-Hardy, The Life of Gerald Brenan'' (1994) External links The Writer Gerald Brenan Gerald Brenan Collection at the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin Information on the Alpujarras English writer in the Alpujarras valley, in Spain Works at Open Library 1894 births 1987 deaths People educated at Radley College British expatriates in Spain British Hispanists British memoirists British Army personnel of World War I Royal Artillery officers Recipients of the Military Cross Commanders of the Order of the British Empire British male novelists 20th-century British novelists 20th-century British historians Burials in the Province of Málaga 20th-century British male writers 20th-century memoirists Male non-fiction writers