Leopoldo Panero.

Poet. Noted for his recurring poetic meditations on death, temporality, religion, and family, Leopoldo Panero Torbado was born on October 17, 1909, in Astorga, Spain, in the province of León, the youngest son of Moisés Panero and Máxima Torbado de Panero. He attended a parochial school in San Sebastián and college in Valladolid. In 1928, Panero founded a weekly literary review, Humo, with his brother Juan and some friends; the group also wrote a book on their hometown, Guía artística y sentimental de la ciudad de Astorga (artistic and sentimental guide to the city of Astorga, 1929). He entered law school at the University of Madrid, but also began writing his own poetry and prose, being deeply influenced by the poets Jorge Guillén and Antonio Machado, and established another journal, Nueva Revista.