Jorge Luis Morales

Background

Jorge Morales was born on October 27, 1930, in Cialis, Puerto Rico, in the family of Rafael Morales Rubero and Julia Gonzalez Gonzalez.

Education

Jorge received B.A. (cum laude) at the University of Puerto Rico in 1951 and an M.A. there in 1963. Then he got his Ph.D. at the University of Madrid in 1965.

Career

Jorge worked as a writer, secondary school teacher, radio host, and school administrator in Puerto Rico. He was a professor of Spanish language and literature, and a distinguished poet-in-residence at the University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras. He was also a founder and director of Instituto Nacional de Bellas Letras in Puerto Rico, beginning in 1981.

Achievements

• Jorge Luis Morales is widely regarded as Puerto Rico’s greatest poet in the years since World War II, and his poetry, though frequently specific in its concerns with Puerto Rican life, is considered generally accessible in its depictions of modern life.

Works

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  • Poesía afroantillana y negrista (Puerto Rico, República Dominicana, Cuba) (Spanish Edition) 1981
  • Alfonso Reyes y la literatura española (Colección Mente y palabra) (Spanish Edition) 1980
  • La Ventana Y Yo 1973
  • Las cien majores poesias liricas de Puerto Rico 1973
  • La Poesia Salva (Antologia Del Taller De Poesia) Y Lecciones De Teoria Poetica 1983
  • Poesia Afroantillana y Negrista 1981

Connections

On September 17, 1954, Jorge married Maria Socorro Villalobos, they had three children: Jorge Luis, Ruben Shelley, and Alga Solange.

Father:

Rafael Morales Rubero

Mother:

Julia Gonzalez Gonzalez

child:

Jorge Luis

child:

Ruben Shelley

child:

Alga Solange

Wife:

Maria Socorro Villalobos