Renato Leduc (November 16, 1897 – August 2, 1986) was a Mexican poet and journalist.

Biography

Leduc, son of a French father and a Mexican mother, served as a signalist in

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(Spanish), ''HispanoPolis.com '' and studied law at the National Autonomous University of Mexico. He wrote poetry, stories and chronicles for several newspapers and cultural magazines, before he travelled to

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by order of the Secretaría de Hacienda y Crédito Público in the mid 1930s, where he met several

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writers, and lived for ten years, during

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. For a short time, he was married to the British artist and writer

Leonora Carrington Mary Leonora Carrington (6 April 191725 May 2011) was a British-born Mexican artist, surrealist painter, and novelist. She lived most of her adult life in Mexico City and was one of the last surviving participants in the surrealist movement of ...

, whom he met in the embassy in Lisbon, on her flight from the Nazis, after they had arrested

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in France. Leduc was a good friend of

Elena Poniatowska Hélène Elizabeth Louise Amélie Paula Dolores Poniatowska Amor (born May 19, 1932), known professionally as Elena Poniatowska () is a French-born Mexican journalist and author, specializing in works on social and political issues focused on th ...

, Federico Cantú Garza, Luis Cardoza y Aragón,

Octavio Paz Octavio Paz Lozano (March 31, 1914 – April 19, 1998) was a Mexican poet and diplomat. For his body of work, he was awarded the 1977 Jerusalem Prize, the 1981 Miguel de Cervantes Prize, the 1982 Neustadt International Prize for Literature, and ...

Agustín Lara Ángel Agustín María Carlos Fausto Mariano Alfonso del Sagrado Corazón de Jesús Lara y Aguirre del Pino (; October 30, 1897 – November 6, 1970), known as Agustín Lara, was a Mexican composer and performer of songs and boleros. He is recogn ...

and Fernando Leal, to whom he dedicated his sonnet ''Mixcalco'' (1925).

María Félix María de los Ángeles Félix Güereña (; 8 April 1914 – 8 April 2002) was a Mexican actress and singer. Along with Pedro Armendáriz and Dolores del Río, she was one of the most successful figures of Latin American cinema in the 1940s and ...

, one of Agustín Lara’s wives, was Leduc’s partner. Leduc's daughter, Patricia Leduc, is the sole heir of her father's rights and archive.
Bautista, Virginia. "Renato Leduc: Un Bohemio Muy Ordinario." Excelsior. August 29, 2016.

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

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Leduc, Renato Mexican male poets Writers from Mexico City Mexican people of French descent National Autonomous University of Mexico alumni 1897 births 1986 deaths 20th-century Mexican poets 20th-century Mexican male writers