Renato Leduc
{{Short description|Mexican poet and journalist}}
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| birth_date = {{birth date|1897|11|16}}
| birth_place = Mexico City, Mexico
| death_date = {{death date and age|1986|8|2|1897|11|16}}
| death_place = Tlalpan, Mexico City, Mexico
| occupation = Writer, journalist
| spouse = Leonora Carrington
| partner = María Félix
| children = 2
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| awards = Premio Nacional de Periodismo (special prize), 1978
Premio Nacional de Periodismo, 1983[http://www.periodismo.org.mx/cronologia.html Historia de “Premio Nacional de Periodismo e Información” (1975-2001)] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090422165941/http://www.periodismo.org.mx/cronologia.html |date=2009-04-22 }}, Consejo Ciudadano del Premio Nacional de Periodismo A.C.
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Renato Leduc (November 16, 1897 – August 2, 1986) was a Mexican poet and journalist.[https://books.google.com/books?id=-uAwa9T3_0kC&dq=%22Leduc,+Renato%22+murio&pg=PA195 Leduc, Renato] in Jorge Ruiz Gusils: Índice de escritores latinoamericanos, 2002, p. 195.
Biography
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Leduc, son of a Mexican father and a Mexican mother, served as a signalist in Pancho Villa's División del Norte,[http://hispanopolis.biz/bin/musica.cgi?q=bio&id=Renato+Leduc Renato Leduc] (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 Paris by order of the Secretaría de Hacienda y Crédito Público in the mid 1930s,[http://amediavoz.com/leduc.htm Renato Leduc] (Spanish) 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 artist and 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 Garza, Luis Cardoza y Aragón, Octavio Paz, Agustín Lara and Fernando Leal, to whom he dedicated his sonnet Mixcalco (1925).
María Félix, 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.[https://www.excelsior.com.mx/expresiones/2016/08/29/1113725], 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
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External links
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Category:Writers from Mexico City
Category:Mexican people of French descent
Category:National Autonomous University of Mexico alumni
Category:20th-century Mexican poets