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Leopoldo Panero | |
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| Born | (1909-10-17)17 October 1909 |
| Died | 27 August 1962(1962-08-27) (aged 52) Castrillo de las Piedras, León, Spain |
| Occupation | Poet and writer |
| Nationality | Spanish |
| Alma mater | University of Valladolid |
| Genre | Poetry |
| Literary movement | Generation of '36 |
| Notable awards | Fastenrath Prize |
| Spouse | Felicidad Blanc |
| Children | Leopoldo María Panero Juan Luis Panero Michi Panero |
Leopoldo Panero was Spanish poet, born inAstorga in 1909 and deceased in 1962. He was the father of the poetsLeopoldo María Panero andJuan Luis Panero and the brother of the early-died poet Juan Panero.
Panero spent his childhood inAstorga. He did secondary schooling in San Sebastián and León, studied law in theUniversity of Valladolid, and completed his legal studies inMadrid. His first verses of poetry became known in a journal calledNueva Revista in Madrid, which he founded and where he published his worksCrónica cuando amanece (1929) andPoema de la niebla (1930). In the fall of 1929 he fell ill oftuberculosis and spent eight months recovering in Guadarrama. There he fell in love with a fellow patient, Joaquina Márquez, who died in the following months, who he referred to in one of his poems.[1] He continued his studies inCambridge University (1932 to 1934) and in Tours and Poitiers (1935), and he grew to love English and French literature. He also published some of his works inCaballo Verde para la poesía, a journal directed byPablo Neruda.
During theCivil War, Panero was arrested, taken to San Marcos de León, and accused of collecting funds for theInternational Red Aid; but through the mediation of his mother, along withMiguel de Unamuno andCarmen Polo, the wife ofFrancisco Franco- Panero's mother's cousin-, he was able to avoid legal penalties and returned toAstorga in November. In 1937, his brother Juan, who was also a poet, died in a car accident. Following this incident, which had a profound impact on Panero, he began to shift more toward conservatism. Panero wroteAdolescente en Sombra (1938) about the incident and in memory of his brother.[2] In 1941, Panero married Felicidad Blanc, who was also a writer. They had three children together: Juan Luis (1942-2013) andLeopoldo María (1948-2014), who also became poets, and José Moisés "Michi" (1951-2004). During the war, Panero joined theFalange Española de las JONS (Spanish Phalanx of the Councils of the National-Syndicalist Offensive), and was later named cultural attaché to the Spanish embassy (1939), and director of the Spanish Institute in London (1945-1947). There he met and associated with some of the greatly regarded outcasts from the war, such asLuis Cernuda and Esteban Salazar Chapela.
