Washington Llorens
| Washington Lloréns Lloréns | |
|---|---|
| Born | 28 November 1899 Ponce, Puerto Rico |
| Died | 21 June 1989 San Juan, Puerto Rico |
| Education | Temple University |
| Occupation | Writer, linguist, literary critic, lexicographer, journalist |
| Known for | Holder of multiple offices in the area of Puerto Rican Spanish: President of the Institute of Puerto Rican Literature President of the Puerto Rico Academy of Arts and Sciences Co-founder of the Academia Puertorriqueña de la Lengua Española Member of the Real Academia Española |
Washington Lloréns Lloréns (28 November 1899 – 21 June 1989) was a Puerto Rican writer, linguist, lexicographer, and journalist. He was also a poet and a literature critic. Lloréns trained as a pharmacist and applied his knowledge of science to vocabulary, for which he had a passion. He was one of 50 Puerto Ricans included in the nineteenth edition of the Royal Academy of the Spanish Language Dictionary.
Lloréns was born on 28 November 1899, in Ponce. He studied in elementary school in Arroyo and high school in Guayama. He attended Temple University Preparatory School in Philadelphia, where he earned a degree in Pharmacy and Chemistry in 1925. He returned to Puerto Rico and became president of the Association of Chemists and the Puerto Rico Pharmacy Examining Board, director of the Revista Farmacéutica journal and co-editor of the Boletín del Colegio de Químicos. From 1943 through 1963, he worked for the federal government as a chemist in the Federal Laboratory of the Internal Revenue Service's Division of Alcohol and Tobacco Taxation, and then retired.
Lloréns cultivated his passion for literature through his essays and short stories. During his youth, he contributed to the monthly publication Páginas de Juventud and the newspapers El Día and El Aguila de Puerto Rico and to the San Juan weekly titled Puerto Rico Ilustrado. As a professional, he wrote for El Carnaval, El Mundo, Puerto Rico Ilustrado and Alma Latina, among other publications. These articles addressed his literary appreciation for Puerto Rican authors such as Enrique Laguerre, María Cadilla de Martínez, José P.H. Hernández, Manuel Zeno Gandía, Antonio Pedreira, Carmelina Vizcarrondo and Luis Villaronga, and foreign authors such as Azorín, Maeterlinck, Juan Ramón Jiménez and Pirandello. His first book was printed in 1936 and was titled "Críticas Profanas". It included articles on many of these authors.
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