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Jack de Groot, PhD (UQ) Since 2004 living permanently in The Hague, The Netherlands.
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In the seventies he studied classical guitar with Professor Louis Ignatius Gall, one of Segovia’s pupils. After migrating to Australia in 1983 he studied Spanish literature at Flinders University in Adelaide with Dr. Luis Sánchez Cuñat, a personal friend of poet Jorge Guillén.
In 2000 Jack de Groot completed a doctoral thesis at the University of Queensland in Brisbane under the supervision of Associate Professor Alfredo Martínez Expósito and Professor Peter M. Cryle. To write this thesis on intertextuality in the poetry of Federico García Lorca and Luis de Góngora the author lived six years in Granada’s gypsy quarter: "El Albayçín".
Since 2003 Jack de Groot is associated with the University Press of the South in New Orleans USA, directed by Prof. Alain Saint Saëns. In order to develop and write books on Spanish literature and culture the author does full-time research.
His book Intertextuality through Obscurity. The Poetry of Federico García Lorca and Luis de Góngora was reviewed by Prof. John Mc Caw in the Revista de Estudios Hispánicos (tomo XXXVIII, nr 3, Octubre de 2004, pp. 595-96): "A well-supported and convincing study."
In 1995 he was awarded the Poetry Prize "La Hermandad de la tierra del Espíritu Santo" for his poem "Homenaje a don Luis de Góngora y Argote" by the Honorary Spanish Consul to South Australia Joaquín Artacho Peralta.
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