WRITER

Leopoldo Lugones

1874 - 1938

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Leopoldo Antonio Lugones Argüello (13 June 1874 – 18 February 1938) was an Argentine poet, essayist, novelist, playwright, historian, professor, translator, biographer, philologist, theologian, diplomat, politician and journalist. His poetic writings are often considered to be the founding works of Spanish-language modern poetry (not, however, modernismo). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Leopoldo Lugones has received more than 135,318 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (down from 24 in 2019). Leopoldo Lugones is the 3,391st most popular writer (down from 3,148th in 2019), the 252nd most popular biography from Argentina (down from 203rd in 2019) and the 17th most popular Argentinean Writer.

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Notable Works

El imperio jesuítico
Catholic Church, Guarani Indians, History
El payador
Criticism, Gauchos, History
Historia de Sarmiento
Biography, Presidents
Obras poéticas completas
Lunario sentimental
La guerra gaucha
Lunario sentimental
El payador
Criticism, Gauchos, History
Antología poética
Labor, Christianity
La guerra gaucha
Historia de Sarmiento
Biography, Presidents, Legislators
Antología de la literatura fantástica
Fantasy literature, Fantastic literature, Anachronisms
Contains: Sennin / Ryūnosuke Akutagawa -- A woman alone with her soul / Thomas Bailey Aldrich -- Ben-Tobith / Leonid Andreyev -- Phantom basket / John Aubrey -- Drowned giant / J.G. Ballard -- Enoch Soames / Max Beerbohm -- Tail of the sphinx / Ambrose Bierce -- Squid in its own ink / Adolfo Bioy Casares -- Guilty eyes / Ah'med Ech Chiruani -- Anything you want! ... / Léon Bloy -- [Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL444914W) / Jorge Luis Borges -- Odin / Jorge Luis Borges & Delia Ingenieros -- Golden kite, the silver wind / Ray Bradbury -- Man who collected the first of September, 1973 / Tor Åge Bringsvaerd -- Careless rabbi / Martin Buber -- Tale of the poet / Sir Richard Burton -- Fate is a fool / Arturo Cancela and Pilar de Lusarreta -- An actual authentic ghost / Thomas Carlyle -- Red king's dream / Lewis Carroll -- Tree of pride / G.K. Chesterton -- Tower of Babel / G.K. Chesterton -- Man who knew too much / Cassell -- Dream of the Butterfly / Chuang Tzu -- Llook of death / Jean Cocteau -- House taken over / Julio Cortázar -- Being dust / Santiago Dabove -- A parable of gluttony / Alexandra David-Neel -- Persecution of the master / Alexandra David-Neel -- Idle city / Lord Dunsany -- Tantalia / Macedonio Fernández -- Eternal Life / J.G. Frazer -- A secure home / Elena Garro -- Man who did not believe in miracles / Herbert A. Giles -- Earth's holocaust / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- Ending for a ghost story / I.A. Ireland -- Monkey's paw / W.W. Jacobs -- What Is a ghost? / James Joyce -- May Goulding / James Joyce -- Wizard passed over / Don Juan Manuel -- Josephine the singer, or the mouse folk / Franz Kafka -- Before the law / Franz Kafka -- Return of imray / Rudyard Kipling -- Horses of Abdera / Leopoldo Lugones -- Ceremony / Arthur Machen -- Riddle / Walter de la Mare -- Who knows? / Guy de Maupassant -- Shadow of the players / Edwin Morgan -- Cat / H.A. Murena -- Story of the foxes / Niu Chiao.

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Leopoldo Lugones ranks 3,391 out of 7,302Before him are William Hope Hodgson, Mika Antić, Charles Lamb, Juan Boscán Almogáver, Salomėja Nėris, and Willibald Alexis. After him are Alexis Piron, Ferenc Kölcsey, Octave Feuillet, Ella Maillart, Filippo Buonaccorsi, and Gérard de Villiers.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1874, Leopoldo Lugones ranks 118Before him are Krste Misirkov, Charles-Louis Philippe, Mikhail Diterikhs, Fernand Bouisson, Charles W. Gilmore, and Julio Romero de Torres. After him are Nicola Canali, Fred Niblo, Ioannis Mitropoulos, Mary Ann Bevan, Alexander Khatisian, and Manuel Díaz. Among people deceased in 1938, Leopoldo Lugones ranks 134Before him are Samuel Alexander, Jane Toppan, Gösta Ekman, Max Wien, Aleksandar Malinov, and Turar Ryskulov. After him are Alexander Svechin, Mirza Davud Huseynov, Władysław Grabski, Ernest William Brown, Gazanfar Musabekov, and Georges Urbain.

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In Argentina

Among people born in Argentina, Leopoldo Lugones ranks 252 out of 1,154Before him are Rodolfo Orlandini (1905), Lolita Torres (1929), Francisco Olazar (1885), Robledo Puch (1952), Marga López (1924), and Oscar Ruggeri (1962). After him are Juan Carlos Lorenzo (1922), Sergio Batista (1962), Leonardo Favio (1938), Gustavo Cerati (1959), Sandro de América (1945), and Rogelio Domínguez (1931).

Among WRITERS In Argentina

Among writers born in Argentina, Leopoldo Lugones ranks 17Before him are María Elena Walsh (1930), María Kodama (1937), Jorge Bucay (1949), Juan Gelman (1930), Ricardo Piglia (1941), and Roberto Arlt (1900). After him are Juan José Saer (1937), César Aira (1949), Hector Bianciotti (1930), Esteban Echeverría (1805), Ariel Dorfman (1942), and Olga Orozco (1920).