Renato Leduc

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

Biography

Leduc served as a signalist in Pancho Villa's División del Norte, 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, 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

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