Leopoldo Lugones

Leopoldo Lugones was born on 13 June 1874 in Villa de María del Río Seco, in the province of Córdoba, according to the Argentine government. A journalist in Buenos Aires from 1895, he founded in 1897 a revolutionary socialist newspaper, La Montaña, then moved towards conservatism and supported the coup of 1930. He directed the Biblioteca Nacional de Maestros, received the national literature prize in 1926 and in 1928 founded the Argentine Society of Writers. He took his own life on 18 February 1938 in a guesthouse in the Paraná delta.

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• Short storiesStrange ForcesLas fuerzas extrañasLeopoldo Lugones · 1906LiteraturePublic domain