Emilio S. Belaval (born in Fajardo, Puerto Rico on November 8, 1903; died in San Juan, Puerto Rico, 1973) was a lawyer and Supreme Judge and writer from Puerto Rico. [1] He graduated from the University of Puerto Rico. His 1935 work Los cuentos de la Universidad, including the essay Los problemas de la cultura puertorriqueña, dealt with ideas of Puerto Rican identity with Beleval favoring one centering on "its own geography" rather than any universalism. This aspect is said to place his views at variance to Antonio S. Pedreira's Insularismo, despite the works having some similarities and being published close together in time. [2] Some of the works by Belaval were made into theater productions by his countryman, playwright Leopoldo Santiago Lavandero. [3]
A literary award is named for Emilio S. Belaval. [4]
Tomás Blanco was a Puerto Rican writer, poet, narrator, historian, author and physician. Blanco was a writer during the 1930s who was known for his critical essays that analyzed the Puerto Rican culture. Similar to other authors of his generation that lived through the Great Depression, his work focused on political and social issues. He also wrote novels, short stories and poetry.
Francisco Ayala García-Duarte was a Spanish writer, the last representative of the Generation of '27.
Petronila "Nilita" Vientós Gastón was a Puerto Rican educator, writer and journalist, and the first female lawyer to work for the Puerto Rico Department of Justice.
Luce López-Baralt is a prominent Puerto Rican scholar and essayist and a professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature at the University of Puerto Rico.
Zoé Jiménez Corretjer is an author from Puerto Rico. She is a professor in the Department of Humanities, University of Puerto Rico at Humacao.
Francisco Arriví, a.k.a. Paco, was a writer, poet and playwright known as "The Father of the Puerto Rican Theater."
Manuel Ramos Otero was a Puerto Rican writer. He is widely considered to be the most important openly gay twentieth-century Puerto Rican writer who wrote in Spanish, and his work was often controversial due to its sexual and political content. Ramos Otero died in San Juan, Puerto Rico, from complications of AIDS.
Salvador de Vives Rodó, also known as Salvador Vives, was a Puerto Rican hacendado and Mayor of Ponce, Puerto Rico, from 1 January 1840 to 5 January 1842 and then again from 1 January 1844 to 24 November 1845. His son, Carlos Vives, was a member of the Ponce Municipal Assembly.
Jaime Martínez Tolentino is a Puerto Rican writer.
Carmelo Filardi (1900–1989) was a Puerto Rican artist of Italian ancestry. He was a cartoonist who had his work published in Puerto Rico's El Mundo newspaper starting in 1927. He was from Yauco, Puerto Rico and his parents were born in Italy. Filardi specialized in satire and journalistic criticism. To do this, he used depictions of average daily life in Puerto Rico to illustrate his thoughts. He was a caricaturist and his work is included in University of Puerto Rico collections.
Washington Lloréns Lloréns was a Puerto Rican writer, linguist, lexicographer, journalist and literary critic. Trained as a pharmacist and chemist, he applied his knowledge of science to vocabulary and linguistics, for which he had a passion. As a lexicographer, one of his notable achievements was the inclusion of over 50 Puerto Rican words in the nineteenth edition of the Dictionary of the Royal Academy of the Spanish Language in 1970.
María Teresa Babín Cortés was a Puerto Rican educator, literary critic, and essayist. She also wrote poetry and plays. Among her best-known works is Panorama de la Cultura Puertorriqueña and several essays on Federico García Lorca.
Luis Torres Nadal was a Puerto Rican playwright, poet, educator, actor, choreographer, and theatrical director.
Luis López Nieves is a Puerto Rican author.
Janette Becerra is a Puerto Rican poet, writer, teacher and literary critic. She obtained an MA in comparative literature and a Ph.D. in Spanish literature at the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus. She has been a professor of Hispanic Studies at the University of Puerto Rico at Cayey since 2000.
Olivia Paoli (1855–1942), born in Ponce, Puerto Rico, was a Puerto Rican suffragist and activist who fought for the rights of women in Puerto Rico. She was the sister of Antonio Paoli, a opera tenor and of Amalia Paoli, a soprano.
Emilio R. Delgado Rodríguez was a poet and a journalist born in Corozal, Puerto Rico. He later moved to New York.
Leopoldo Santiago Lavandero was a Puerto Rican radio narrator and director, playwright, theater producer and acting teacher. Santiago Lavandero is considered to have been instrumental in discovering some of Puerto Rico's most famous acting legends, such as Adrian Garcia, Luz María Rondón and Luis Daniel Rivera.