Washington Lloréns
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Washington Lloréns was a Puerto Rican
journalist, writer, linguist
, and scholar. He was born in Ponce, Puerto Rico
and died in San Juan
. He was also a poet and a literature critic.
Puerto Rican people
A Puerto Rican is a person who was born in Puerto Rico.Puerto Ricans born and raised in the continental United States are also sometimes referred to as Puerto Ricans, although they were not born in Puerto Rico...
journalist, writer, linguist
Linguistics
Linguistics is the scientific study of human language. Linguistics can be broadly broken into three categories or subfields of study: language form, language meaning, and language in context....
, and scholar. He was born in Ponce, Puerto Rico
Ponce, Puerto Rico
Ponce is both a city and a municipality in the southern part of Puerto Rico. The city is the seat of the municipal government.The city of Ponce, the fourth most populated in Puerto Rico, and the most populated outside of the San Juan metropolitan area, is named for Juan Ponce de León y Loayza, the...
and died in San Juan
San Juan, Puerto Rico
San Juan , officially Municipio de la Ciudad Capital San Juan Bautista , is the capital and most populous municipality in Puerto Rico, an unincorporated territory of the United States. As of the 2010 census, it had a population of 395,326 making it the 46th-largest city under the jurisdiction of...
. He was also a poet and a literature critic.
Books by Washington Lloréns
The following are books written by Lloréns since 1960:- El habla popular de Puerto Rico (1968)
- Catorce pecados de humor y una vida descabellada (1959)
- Comentarios a Refranes, modismos, locuciones de Coversao en el Batey de Ernesto Juan Fonfrias (Club de la Prensa, 1956) (1962)
- Diez pecados de humor (1977)
- Dos mujeres del Quijote: la mujer de Sancho, Maritornes (1964)
- El humorismo, el epigrama y la satira en la literatura puertorriqueña (1960)
- Transculturacion en Puerto Rico (1969)
See also
- List of Puerto Rican writers
- List of Famous Puerto Ricans
- Puerto Rican literature