Luis (Leopoldo) Franco

Luis (Leopoldo) Franco was born on the 15^th November 1898; he died on the 1^st June 1988. He was an autodidact, a self-made intellectual, essayist and a poet.  Leopoldo was the son of Luis Antonio and Balbina Acosta and he spent most of his life in his native region far from the limelight of the city of Buenos Aires and the Academic world of the city that he hated in favor of the Bucolic and rural life in his father’s castle farm that is located in Balen.

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At the age of 17, Leopoldo was given the award of a literary prize for his work called Odaprimaveral.

It was hard for Leopoldo to acoexist with the cultural life and the Bourgeois pattern of life of other intellectuals in the city if Buenos Aires.  And soon after he had completed his high school, he went back to his hometown, Belen. In his hometown, Leopoldo lived most of his adult life doing what he loved most; working the land, reading and writing.

He soon emerged as a political writer after the military coup of General José EvaristoUriburu in the year 1930. Leopoldo was a Marxist of Trotskyite tendencies and he was also among the founders of the party called Movimiento al Socialismo (MAS) in 1982. In the year 1952, he contributed to the magazine called Estrategia.

Poetry; Book Cover

Ø  La Flauta de caña, 1920.

Ø  Coplas, 1921.

Ø  Libro del gay vivir, 1923.

Ø  Coplas del pueblo, 1927

Ø  Nuevo mundo, 1927.

Ø  Los trabajos y los días, 1928.

Ø  Américainicial (1931)..

Ø  NocturnosEdiciones Babel, 1932.

Ø  SumaEdicionesPerseo, 1938.

Ø  Catamarca en cielo y tierra.

Ø  PanEdiciones Suma, 1948.

Ø  ConstelaciónAntología general, (1959)

Ø  El corazón en la guitarra, folder with drawings by Ricardo Carpani, 1963.

Ø  Four Poems, folder with lithographs by Demetrio Urruchúa, 1965.

Ø  Poesía de Luis Franco (1965)

Ø  TrotskyCarpeta con unpoema, 1967.

Ø  Guitarra (Teoría y práctica de la copla), (1971)

Ø  Coplas del pueblo

Ø  Insurreción de poema (1979)

Ø  El mar se embarca. (?)

Ø  Luis Franco

Essays; Book Cover

Ø  Los hijos de Llastay (fables), 1926.

Ø  AméricainicialEdiciones Babel, 1931.

Ø  El general Paz y los dos caudillajes, 1933.

Ø  Biografía de la guerra, 1941.

Ø  El fracaso de Juan Tobal, 1941.

Ø  Walt Whitman, 1940.

Ø  El otro Rosas (1945)

Ø  Rosas entre anécdotas, 1946.

Ø  Biografía de animales, 1953, 1961.

Ø  Antes y después de Caseros, 1954.

Ø  Hudson a caballo, 1956, 1973.

Ø  El arca de Noe en el Río de la Plata

Ø  Biografía sacra, 1957.

Ø  Sarmiento y Martí, 1958.

Ø  Biografía Patria (1958)

Ø  Biografía de la guerra

Ø  Pequeñodiccionario de la desobediencia, 1959.

Ø  Domingo F. Sarmiento, 1960.

Ø  Revisión de los griegos, 1960.

Ø  La hembrahumana, 1962; Second Ed. 1974:

Ø  Prometeo ante la, 1964.

Ø  Espartaco en Cuba, 1965.

Ø  De Rosas a MitreDávalos, 1967.

Ø  Los grandes caciques de la pampa, 1967.

Ø  Sarmiento entre dos fuegos, 1968.

Ø  Cuentosorejanos, 1968.

Ø  La pampa habla, 1968.

Ø  Guitarraadentro, 1971.

Ø  Rosas. Editorial Propósitos, 1970.

Ø  El arca de Noé en el Plata, 1973.

Ø  El zorro y suvecindario, 1976

Ø  Nuestro padre el árbol, 1978.

Literary prizes

Ø  Tucumán Province Award, 1915

Ø  Book of the Year Award, Jokey Club, 1931, Buenos Aires.

Ø  PremioNacional de Literatura, 1941

Ø  Premio Municipal de Poesíaporsulibro "Constelación"

Ø  Gran Premio de Honor de la SADE in the year 1984.