Background
Andreu Iglesias was born in Ponce, Puerto Rico, on July 31, 1915.
(Originally published in Puerto Rico in 1956 as Los derrot...)
Originally published in Puerto Rico in 1956 as Los derrotados, Cesar Andreu Iglesias's novel about a fateful Nationalist assault on a U.S. military installation in Puerto Rico is now available for the first time in English. This tautly written story uncovers the personal histories of three middle-aged revolutionaries as they plan to kill a U.S. general. Andreu's cool treatment of their political objectives does not obscure his compassionate recognition of their human limitations. Andreu makes clear his view that the Nationalist answer to Puerto Rico's problems had become an anachronism and that by the 1950s the union movement was better prepared to deal with the changes that industrial capitalism was thrusting upon the Puerto Rican people and their way of life. The afterword by Arcadio Diaz-Quinones provides a rich historical and literary context for The Vanquished.
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Andreu Iglesias was born in Ponce, Puerto Rico, on July 31, 1915.
He also served as president of the Puerto Rican Communist Party, and the recipient of the 1960 Award for Excellence in Journalism from the Puerto Rican Institute of Literature. Andreu Iglesias was constantly preoccupied, as a writer and journalist as well as through his civil acts, with the issue of social injustice. He was a man of firm political convictions which brought him to found, with Mari Bras, the weekly Claridad.
Andreu Iglesias married Jane Speed, a bookseller.
Andreu Iglesias died in San Juan on April 17, 1976.
(Originally published in Puerto Rico in 1956 as Los derrot...)
"Andreu was at the very forefront of socialist and independentista movements in Puerto Rico..He was a tireless organizer, a creative editor, and a speaker on the history of the labor movement in Puerto Rico."
While less known for his theatrical plays, Andreu Iglesias also brought his political views and literary interest to theater in Puerto Rico.