Luis Llorens Torres

Poet

Birthday May 14, 1876

Birth Sign Taurus

Birthplace Juana Díaz, PR

DEATH DATE Jun 16, 1944 (68)

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About

Poet, writer, attorney, and political figure who fought, in the early years of the twentieth century, for Puerto Rican independence. In 1913, he co-founded a literary journal entitled La Revista de Las Antillas.

Before Fame

He published his first poetry collection, Al Pie de la Alhambra, while he was a young man living in Spain.

Trivia

He studied at both the University of Barcelona and the University of Granada.

Family Life

He was the Puerto Rican-born son of coffee plantation owners Marcelina Soledad de Torres and Luis Aurelio del Carmen Llorens.

Associated With

He, like Olga Nolla, was a Puerto Rican poet.

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