13 Facts About Leopoldo Lugones

Leopoldo Antonio Lugones Arguello was an Argentine poet, essayist, novelist, playwright, historian, professor, translator, biographer, philologist, theologian, diplomat, politician and journalist.

Leopoldo Lugones was the firstborn son of Santiago M Lugones and Custodia Arguello.

In 1892 the family would move to that city, at the time when Leopoldo Lugones was beginning his forays into the fields of journalism and literature.

Leopoldo Lugones first worked for La Montana, a newspaper, and was in favour with the aristocratic Manuel Quintana, a candidate to become a president of Argentina.

Leopoldo Lugones was the leading Argentine exponent of the Latin American literary current known as Modernismo.

Leopoldo Lugones was the author of the incredibly dense and rich stories of La Guerra Gaucha.

Leopoldo Lugones went to Europe in 1906,1911,1913 and in 1930, in which latter year he supported the coup d'etat against the aging Radical party president, Hipolito Yrigoyen.

Between 1924 and 1931, Leopoldo Lugones took part in the works of the International Committee on Intellectual Cooperation of the League of Nations.

On February 18,1938, the despairing and disillusioned Leopoldo Lugones committed suicide by taking a mixture of whisky and cyanide while staying at the river resort of El Tigre in Buenos Aires.

Nevertheless, recent publications in Argentina have shed light on another possible motivation: Leopoldo Lugones was very enamored of a girl he met at one of his lectures in the university.

Leopoldo Lugones maintained a passionate and emotional relationship with her until, discovered and pressured by his son, he was forced to leave her, causing in him a depressive decline that would end his life.

Polo's younger daughter, Susana "Piri" Leopoldo Lugones, was detained and disappeared in December 1977 as a victim of the Dirty War.

The film's script, written by Homero Manzi and Ulyses Petit de Murat, is based on the short story collection by Leopoldo Lugones published in 1905.