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Luis H. A. Pozzo Ardizzi

Writer, Journalist and Poet. (1901-1965)

He was born in Saavedra, province of Buenos Aires (Argentina), on August 13, 1901 and died in December 1965. He was a prominent figure in Argentine journalism in the first half of the 20th century.

Journalistic Career

  • La Razón Newspaper (1924-1932): He served as Head of Maritime News. He was a special correspondent for the same newspaper to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on the occasion of the shipwreck of the steamer "Principessa Mafalda" and to Ushuaia, capital of Tierra del Fuego, on the occasion of the sinking of the "Monte Cervantes".
  • La Prensa Newspaper (1932-1951): He was an editor and special correspondent for this newspaper to Paraguay, during the Paraguayan-Bolivian War (Chaco War).
  • Institutional: He was Vice President of the Press Circle (1949-1951).
  • Atlántida Publishing House: In 1952 he joined the editorial staff of the publishing house and collaborated on various publications.
"His interview style was characterized by the deliberate omission of the reporter's questions (represented by ellipses enclosed between two question marks) and the transcription of the answers which, in any case, take them for granted."

🎙️ Historical Interview

Luis conducted a famous interview with the Argentine president, Hipólito Yrigoyen, in 1930. (Source: El Hogar, No. 1078).

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Bibliography and Literary Work

Below, the inventory of his published work:

Cover: The man from Florida Street
"El hombre de la calle Florida"

(1st edition 1944 - Humorous stories).

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  • Credo
  • El hombre de la calle Florida
  • Reflexiones del caballo de la calesita
  • Joan Crawford en un pueblo de La Pampa
  • Lamentaciones de una perra abandonada
  • La transmisión del mando presidencial...
  • ¡100.000 Pesos por el Gran Campeón!
  • Diario de una niña moderna
  • El caballo de plaza contra el H. P.
  • Irrealidades imaginativas de una curiosa necrópolis
  • ¡Que se prohiba la moda del nonato!
  • ¡Yo maté al cerdo!
Cover: Men of the Furrow
"Hombres del surco: (Semblanzas de agricultores)"

(Raigal Publishing, 1955, 112 pages).

"This book traces profiles of primitive heroes of our agriculture or recounts events that belong to the 'little history' of that mother Argentine industry."

Cover: Guillermo Brown
"Guillermo Brown"

(Atlántida Publishing, 135 pages, 1950).

  • "Adelante Señores, Bar automático" (Viau y Zona Publishing, 153 pages. 1929).
  • "A través de mi lupa" (Parade of famous men and women).
  • "Buenos Aires en pijama" (Notes, glosses and humorous reflections, 1949).
  • "De la vida diaria" (Stories).
  • "Divagaciones de un loco suelto" (Humorous stories. Viau y Zona Publishing, 1928).
  • "El corazón de la Boca" (Author Benito Quinquela Martín, collaborator Luis Pozzo Ardizzi). Interview with the painter - O. Cruzeiro Publishing, 1959, 8 pages. Featured
  • "Hace treinta años que Irigoyen se batió con de la Torre" (One of the godfathers, Dr. Carlos F. Gómez, recounts some details of the duel) - (Daws, Carlos Guillermo, compiler) - Stories.
  • "La Escena, año XV, n.725" (Written together with Segundo B. Gauna, 1932) - Theater: play in two acts.
  • "La moral de don Filántropo" (Humorous stories. Gráfica Comercial Publishing, 1925).
  • "Motivos del niño" (Verses, 1952).
  • "Ricardo Rojas odia la mecánica" (Daws, Carlos Guillermo, compiler) - Interviews.
  • "Transparencia" (Argentine Printing and Distributing Cooperative Edition, 1959, 67 pages).

Theater and Radio Theater

Director of radio theater companies, his work was based on political-social themes.

Juventud Company (1947)
The company "Juventud", when in 1947 they performed "And They Swore", by Luis Pozzo Ardizzi and Santiago Benvenuto (Adalberto Campos).
  • "Y ellos juraron"
    (Written with Santiago Benvenuto). Performed in 1947.
  • "Soy Judío"
    Broadcast by Radio del Pueblo. The leading role was played by Adalberto Campos and the song was performed by Teresita Padró (who learned the words in Yiddish phonetically). Later premiered at the Fenix cinema-theater (corner of Av. Rivadavia and Pergamino, Floresta) with tickets sold out a week before the debut.
    Source: Book "El barrio de La Floresta" by Emilio Vattuone.
  • "El ciego que habló con Dios" (Radio Theater)
    (With the performance of Alfredo Sahdi, the nomadic actor of Patagonia).
  • "Y... ¡viva la muerte!" (1932)
    (Play in two acts, written together with Segundo B. Gauna).
  • "El negro que tenía el alma blanca" (Radio Theater)