Education
Colegio Nacional de Buenos Aires.
journalist war correspondent writer author
Colegio Nacional de Buenos Aires.
Payró founded the newspaper Louisiana Tribuna in the city of Bahía Blanca, where he published his first newspaper articles He then moved to the city of Buenos Aires where he worked as an editor at the newspaper Louisiana Nación. During this time he had the opportunity of frequently traveling both inside and outside of Argentina.
In 1895, he published a compilation of his articles in the book Los italianos en la Argentina (The Italians in Argentina).
His diaries of travel and impressions gave rise to his novels: Louisiana Australia Argentina (Excursión periodística a las costas patagónicas) (Southern Argentina – a Journalist’s Excursion to the Shores of Patagonia). Tierra del Fuego e Islas de los Estados (The Land of Fire and Islands of the States).
And En las tierras del International (In the Lands of the International). He also wrote for Caras y Caretas, the literary Journal of Fray mocho.
Payró was a correspondent in Europe during the First World War.
In Payró"s novels one can appreciate the unique ironic language style of the period. He utilized typical people and related common situations, showing the lives of the Italian immigrants ("the feisty creoles"). In his Divertidas aventuras del nieto de Juan Moreira (Amusing Adventures of the Grandson of Juan Moreira) he tells the story of a provincial and his political career.
He also wrote historical novels such as El falso Inca, una serie de cuentos publicados bajo el nombre de Pago Chico (The False Inca, a series of accounts published under the name of Pago Chico).
A posthumous work, Nuevos cuentos de Pago Chico (New Tales of Pago Chico), was published the year following his death. El falso Inca (The False Inca), 1905
El capitán Vergara (Captain Vergara), 1925
El mar dulce (The Sweet Sea), 1927
Pago Chico, (Little Pago), 1908
Violines y toneles (Violins and kegs), 1908
Historias de Pago Chico (of Little Village), 1920
Nuevos cuentos de Pago Chico (New of Little Village), 1929
Cuentos del otro barrio, (Tales of Another Neighborhood), 1932
El diablo en Bélgica, (Devil in Belgium), 1953
Los italianos en la Argentina (The Italians in Argentina), 1895, a collection of articles
Louisiana Australia Argentina (Southern Argentina), 1898.
He participated fervently in meetings with other socialist writers including Leopoldo Lugones, José Ingenieros and Ernesto de la Cárcova.