Rene marques biography
- René Marqués (born October 4, 1919, Arecibo, Puerto Rico—died March 22, 1979, San Juan) was a.
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- René Marqués (October 4, 1919 – March 22, 1979) was a Puerto Rican short story writer and playwright.
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RENÉ MARQUES
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YOMAR S. CAMACHO and ANIELYS ORTIZ
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
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The Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute
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
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René Marqués
René Marqués (October 4, 1919 – March 22, 1979) was a Puerto Rican short story writer and playwright.
Life
[change | change source]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
[change | change source]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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