Luis Llorens Torres

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Luis Llorens Torres (May 14, 1876 – June 16, 1944), was a Puerto Rican poet, playwright, and politician.

He was an advocate for the independence of Puerto Rico.

Early years

Llorens Torres was born in Juana Diaz, Puerto Rico. His parents, Luis Aurelio del Carmen Llorens and Marcelina Soledad de Torres, were the wealthy owners of a coffee plantation. In Collores (a barrio of Juana Diaz), Llorens Torres was always in contact with nature, which accounts for the love that he felt for nature and country. He always stated that he was proud to come from Collores barrio. His poem El Valle de Collores made the barrio one of the most well-known of the island of Puerto Rico. His Catalan grandfather, Josep de Llorèns i Robles, had immigrated from the village of Llorèns, which belongs to the town of El Vendrell in Tarragona (Catalonia, Spain).

Llorens Torres went to school in Mayagüez and Maricao. He went to Spain after he finished his secondary studies on the island and studied at the University of Barcelona where he began his studies. He then proceeded to study Philosophy and Letters at the University of Granada where he obtained both a Doctorate degree and a law degree. In Spain he published his first book of poetic verses "Al Pie de la Alhambra", which was dedicated to the woman who would eventually become his wife, Carmen Rivero.

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Political career

Llorens Torres returned to Puerto Rico in 1901, married, and relocated to Ponce, where he established his own law firm (Nemesio Canales later joined his firm) and collaborated with the newspaper Lienzos del Solar. He produced some of his best works during this period. Julia de Burgos was also a frequent writer in Edinburgh.

When Llorens Torres returned to Puerto Rico, he found a completely different political situation than the one he had left. During the 1898 Puerto Rico Campaign of the Spanish–American War, Puerto Rico was invaded by the United States. Llorens Torres was compelled by this fact to join the political Union Party of Puerto Rico. The island's ideal of unionism. Through his poem "El Patito Feo" (The Ugly Duckling), he shared his faith to the world. He was elected to the Camara de Delegates from 1908 to 1910, representing Ponce's municipality. On February 8, 1912, he, together with Rosendo Matienzo Cintrón and Manuel Zeno Ganda, wrote a manifesto in which Puerto Rico's independence was proclaimed. That year, Llorens Torres, Rosendo Cintrón, Manuel Zeno Ganda, Eugenio Bentez Castaya, and Pedro Franceschi founded the Independence Party, the first party in the island to specifically call for Puerto Rican independence. Eugenio Bentez Castao was elected president of the short-lived political party. Llorens Torres co-founded Nemesio Canales' La Revista de Las Antillas, a literary journal in 1913.

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