Renato Leduc

Renato Leduc (b. Tlalpan, November 16, 1897 – d. Mexico City, August 2, 1986) was a Mexican poet and journalist.^[2]

Biography

Leduc, son of a French father and a Mexican mother, served as a signalist in Francisco Villa's División del Norte,^[3] and studied law at the Universidad Nacional de México. He wrote poetry, stories and chronicles for several newspapers and cultural magazines, before he traveled to Paris by order of the Secretaría de Hacienda y Crédito Público in the mid 1930s,^[4] where he met several surrealistic writers, and lived for ten years, during World War II. For a short time, he was married to the British writer Leonora Carrington, whom he met in the embassy in Lisbon, on her flight from the Nazis, after they had arrested Max Ernst in France. Leduc was a good friend of Elena Poniatowska, Federico Cantú, Luis Cardoza Y Aragon, Octavio Paz and Agustín Lara, of María Félix, to whom he was probably married.^[3] , as well as of Fernando Leal to whom he dedicated his sonnet Mixcalco (1925).

Selected works

• "El aula", 1929
• "Unos cuantos sonetos", 1932
• "Algunos poemas deliberadamente románticos", 1933
• "Breve glosa al Libro de Buen Amor", 1939
• "Versos y poemas", 1940
• "Desde París", 1942
• "Fabulillas de animales, niños y espantos", 1957
• "Catorce poemas burocráticos y un corrido reaccionario", 1963
• "Prometeo, la Odisea, Euclidiana", 1968

External links

• Renato Leduc in the Ibero-American Institute (Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation) catalogue, Berlin
• Renato Leduc at the Internet Movie Database

References