page_title: Fernando Nadra
section_title: Chilhood and youth
hierarchical_section_title: Fernando Nadra / Chilhood and youth
caption_attribution_description: Español: Tucumán, 1927. Fernando Nadra en el patio de su casa. Detrás una tía con atuendo típico árabe.
context_page_description: Fernando Nadra was an Argentine lawyer, journalist and public speaker. He was one of the most important leaders of the Partido Comunista Argentino and, from his marxist ideological perspective, took part in most of the important political debates of his time. He stood out from other left-wing leaders of his time for his abilities as an organizer and collective activist, and his numerous attempts to promote agreement among different political sectors through pluralistic dialogue.
  As many of his contemporaries, he experienced persecutions, prison and censure.
context_section_description: Nadra was born to Syrian immigrants, who arrived in San Miguel de Tucumán at the beginning of the 20th century. 
  His mother, Nabiha Louis, was a teacher in her native town, Damascus. His father, Nallib Nadra, a native of Homs, amassed an importanat fortune in Argentina. Though he started out as a modest trader, he went on to become the first agent of FIAT in the northwest and, later, he devoted himself to the sugar industry.
  From his adolescence Fernando Nadra stood out in the social and cultural life of his province. In 1938, at the age of 22, he published his first book of poems “Visión de Cumbre” (Summit View). One of those poems was analyzed in the Argentine volume of a British 19-volume book about the impact of the Spanish Civil War on intellectuals from Hispanic–American countries.
  Later, in 1943, Nadra was one of the founders of the poetic and cultural Movement of the Argentine Northwest, with headquarters in Tucumán's La Carpa (The Tent). This movement included personalities like Raúl Galán, Manuel J. Castilla, Raúl Aráoz Anzoátegui, María Adela Agudo, Nicandro Pereyra, Julio Ardiles Gray o José Fernández Molina).
caption: Tucuman 1927, Fernando Nadra in the courtyard of his house. Behind him, his aunt dressed in a traditional Arabian clothing.
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