Renato Leduc was a Mexican

Mexico

The United Mexican States , commonly known as Mexico , is a federal constitutional republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of...

 poet and journalist.

Biography

Leduc, son of a French father and a Mexican mother, served as a signalist in Francisco Villa's División del Norte, 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, where he met several surrealistic

Surrealism

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 writers, and lived for ten years, during World War II

World War II

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. For a short time, he was married to the British writer Leonora Carrington

Leonora Carrington

Leonora Carrington OBE was a British-born Mexican artist, a surrealist painter and a novelist. She lived most of her life in Mexico City.-Early life:...

, whom he met in the embassy in Lisbon

Lisbon

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, on her flight from the Nazis, after they had arrested Max Ernst

Max Ernst

Max Ernst was a German painter, sculptor, graphic artist, and poet. A prolific artist, Ernst was one of the primary pioneers of the Dada movement and Surrealism.-Early life:...

 in France. Leduc was a good friend of Elena Poniatowska

Elena Poniatowska

Elena Poniatowska is a Mexican journalist and author. Her generation of writers include Carlos Fuentes‎, José Emilio Pacheco and Carlos Monsiváis.-Life:Poniatowska was born in Paris to Prince Jean Joseph Evremont Sperry Poniatowski and Paula Amor Yturbe...

, Federico Cantú, Luis Cardoza Y Aragon

Luis Cardoza y Aragón

Luis Cardoza y Aragón was a Guatemalan writer, essayist, poet, art critic, and diplomat born in Antigua Guatemala but who spent a good part of his life living in exile in Mexico....

, Octavio Paz

Octavio Paz

Octavio Paz Lozano was a Mexican writer, poet, and diplomat, and the winner of the 1990 Nobel Prize for Literature.-Early life and writings:...

 and Agustín Lara

Agustín Lara

Agustín Lara was a Mexican singer and songwriter.-Biography:Lara was born in Tlacotalpan, Veracruz. Later, the Lara family had to move again to Mexico City, establishing their house in the borough of Coyoacán. After Lara's mother died, Agustín and his siblings lived in a hospice run by their...

, as well as of María Félix

María Félix

María Félix was a Mexican film actress and one of the icons of the golden era of the Cinema of Mexico and also one of the myths of the Spanish language Cinema for her life style and personality...

, to whom he was probably married.

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