Leopoldo Marechal

Leopoldo Marechal was born in Buenos Aires on 11 June 1900, the son of a Uruguayan father of French descent and a mother of Basque origin; as a teenager, he worked as a factory labourer. A schoolteacher, librarian and professor, he belonged to the group around the magazine Martín Fierro and lived in Paris in 1929, according to escritores.org. Close to Peronism, he headed the Directorate General of Culture from 1946, then artistic education until 1955; after the coup d'état, he was censored and his work banned. He died at home on 26 June 1970.

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• NovelAdam BuenosayresAdán BuenosayresLeopoldo Marechal · 1948Literature