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List of Puerto Rican writers

This is a list of Puerto Rican literary figures, including poets, novelists, short story authors, and playwrights. It includes people who were born in Puerto Rico, people who are of Puerto Rican ancestry, and long-term residents or immigrants who have made Puerto Rico their home, and who are recognized for their literary work.

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  • Manuel Abreu Adorno (1955–1984), novelist
  • Rafael Acevedo (born 1960), poet, playwright, fiction writer
  • Moisés Agosto Rosario (born 1965), poet and author
  • Alfredo M. Aguayo, educator and writer (1866–1948). Established the first laboratory of child psychology at the University of Havana.
  • Jack Agüeros (1934–2014), author, playwright, poet and translator
  • Miguel Algarín (1941–2020), poet, writer. Co-founder of the Nuyorican Poets Cafe.
  • Manuel A. Alonso (1822–1889), poet and author. Considered by many to be the first Puerto Rican writer of notable importance.
  • Aldo Alvarez, short-story writer
  • Silvia Álvarez Curbelo (born 1940), writer and historian
  • Alba Ambert, novelist. In 1996 Ambert became the first Hispanic author to win the Carey McWilliams Award for Multicultural Literature, presented by the Multicultural Review, for her novel A Perfect Silence.
  • Marta Aponte Alsina (born 1945), storyteller, novelist and literary critic
  • Pedro I. Aponte Vázquez, historian, journalist, social scientist, professor and writer Author of ¡Yo Acuso! Tortura y Asesinato de Don Pedro Albizu Campos.;Pedro Albizu Campos: Su persecución por el F.B.I.;Crónica de un encubrimiento: Albizu Campos y el caso Rhoads.;Locura por decreto: El papel de Luis M
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    Aarne, Anti, 23, 25

    Abbad y Lasierra, Fray Iñigo, 676–677

    Abbas, F., 381

    Abdalla, Abdilatif, 205, 206, 324

    Abdalla, Said, 212

    Abdelkader, Emir, 183–184

    Abdullahi, Jabiru, 345

    Abdulwahid, Hafsatu, 346

    Abdurra’uhu, Malam Shitu Dan, 335

    Abedi, Kaluta Amri, 205

    Abel, Antoine, 580

    Abimbola, ’Wande, 375

    Abomey kingdom, 544

    Abouzeid, Leila, 193

    Abrahams, Lionel, 520

    Abrahams, Peter, 392, 399, 404, 425, 476, 516, 517

    Abrahams, Roger, 122, 126, 127, 128

    Abrahamsson, Hans, 20

    Abranches, Henrique, 612, 613

    Abrantes, Mena, 613

    Abruquah, Joseph, 482

    Abu-Haidar, Jareer, 62

    Abu Ishaq Ibrahim of Kanem, 182

    Abu-Lughod, Lila, 61

    Abu-Manga, Al-Amin, 339

    Abubakre, Razq, 196

    abuse, oral forms, 126–128

    Abyssinia, 98, 260, 277

    Accra, Ghana Cultural Centre, 28

    Achebe, Chinua

       and Armah, 826–827

       Arrow of God, 128, 390, 393, 486, 497

       choice of English, 480

       colonial debate, 392

       colonial education, 483

       and Equiano, 475

       Igbo culture, 489–490, 832, 835–837

       and Joyce Cary, 279

       and literature in English, 425

       loss of community, 491

       A Man of the People, 489, 495, 498, 630

       and modernism, 824–825

       and motivation to write, 381

       No Longer at Ease, 476, 486, 824, 828

       and Okike, 406

       postcolonial disenchantment, 283, 798

       short stories, 496

       and Soyinka, 486–487

       Things Fall Apart, xi, 126, 284, 343, 388, 393, 483, 484, 485–486, 824, 831–837

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    Puerto Rican Literature

           

    Puerto Rican Literature has been deeply influenced by Puerto Rico’s history of colonization and by massive migration during the 20 century. The development of national identity in Puerto Rico has implied a series of contradictions which are reflected in its literature.  Many critics have pointed out that Puerto Rican literature is split between two shores: Puerto Rican literature written by island authors and the more recent Puerto Rican literature written in the United States by the sons and daughters of the different migratory waves along the twentieth century.  Puerto Rican literature on the island has been characterized by a number of recurrent themes concerning the definition of cultural and national identity as a way to solve the contradiction of being Latina American but U.S. citizens, of being a Caribbean nation which is still US territory yet culturally and linguistically different. 

    Under the Spanish colonial power, Puerto Rican literature did not emerge as such until the second half of the nineteenth century with works like El jíbaro (1849) by Manuel Alonso where a distinct local culture was presented. The island would also become a beloved patria in the poetry written with a nationalist urge by José Gautier Benítez (1851-1880).  The 1898 events and the arrival of North Americans after the Spanish-American wear brought new difficulties to the emerging Puerto Rican identity.  Writers like Manuel Zeno Gandía wrote about the decline of an island and its people under a new colonial power in landmark works like the trilogy Crónicas de un mundo enfermo.  New anti-assimilationist figures appeared after 1898 reaffirming a distinct Puerto Rican heritage, culture and language, among them José de Diego (1866-1959) and Luis Llorens Torres (1878-1944), and the modernist Luis Palés Matos (1898-1959) with his afro-caribbean poetry. The

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