Rene marques biography

RENÉ MARQUES

by reyeslteacher

YOMAR S. CAMACHO and ANIELYS ORTIZ

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UNIT 12.1 – MY JOURNEY SO FAR: LEARNING ABOUT BIOGRAPHIES AND AUTOBIOGRAPHIES RENE MARQUES SPECIAL PROJECT YOMAR S. CAMACHO ANIELYS ORTIZ

REN E M A R Q U E S B IO G R A P H IC A L D E T A IL S Was born on October 4, 1919, Arecibo, Puerto Rico. Died on March 22, 1979, San Juan) He was a famous playwright, short story writer and a critic. He is best known for his play ¨LA CARRETA¨ that was published on 1956. In 1958 the Puerto Rico Athenaeum awarded him first prize in four genres: short story, novel, essay, and drama.

RENE MARQUES BIO GRAPHICAL DETAILS Marqués graduated in 1942 from the College of Agricultural Arts of Mayagüez. He was an Puerto Rican nationalist whose work shows deep social and artistic commitment Marqués began a seventeen-year association with the Department of Education's community education program in 1950 as a writer and head of the publishing section. Marqués taught courses and theater workshops at

The Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute

René Marqués was born in Arecibo, Puerto Rico (on the north coast of the island) on October 4, 1919. Both sides of his family were from small, agricultural societies and Marqués grew up with a strong love of the land a theme which appears frequently in his writings. “The Oxcart” itself pleads for a return to the “land which gives life” 1 as opposed to the false values of a mechanized society which can only degrade and destroy an individual and rob him/her of dignity. Thus he joins his fellow Latin American contemporary writers by reflecting the “Beatus Ille” theme, as, for example, in Alejo Carpentier’s The Lost Steps .

Marqués spent his early years in the home of his maternal grandparents where a relative, his aunt, Do–a Padrina Padilla de Sanz, fostered in René another supreme value—love of liberty. She was a poetess, writer, and pianist, and most importantly, an ardent defender of Puerto Rico’s independence and of women’s rights, producing many articles on political and feminist issues. Marqués studied agromony at the College of Agr

René Marqués

René Marqués (October 4, 1919 – March 22, 1979) was a Puerto Rican short story writer and playwright.

Life

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He studied at the College of Agriculture and Mechanical Arts. He earned a degree in agronomy in 1942. He studied drama at the University of Madrid in 1946 and Columbia University in New York in 1949. Family. He married Serena Velasco in 1942. They divorced in 1957. He had two sons and one daughter.[1]

He had many jobs. He worked as an agronomist for the Department of Agriculture (1943-46). He managed a department store from 1946 to 1949. He was also a college teacher and a journalist in San Juan in the 1950s. He founded the Experimental Theater of the Atheneum in 1951.

He won a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation in 1949.[2] He also won many literary prizes in Puerto Rico.[1]

Theatrical works

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He wrote theater plays, short stories, and essays.   His most famous play is "The Oxcart (1956)" or "La Carreta" (which means "The Wagon").[3] It is the story of a

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