Ricardo Guiraldes

Topics: Argentine novelists, Argentine poets

Ricardo Guiraldes (13 February 1886 8 October 1927) was an Argentine novelist and poet, one of the most significant Argentine writers of his era, particularly known for his 1926 novel Don Segundo Sombra, set amongst the gauchos.

Despite that decision, Guiraldes threw himself into the French capital's social whirl, practically abandoning his literary ambitions. But one day he unpacked some draft stories he had written about rural Argentina and set to work; these would eventually become his Cuentos de muerte y de sangre ("Stories of death and of blood").

Ricardo Guiraldes and Don Segundo Sombra; life and works / Giovanni Previtali., 1963