Luis Rechani Agrait

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Rechani and the second or maternal family name is Agrait.

Luis Rechani Agrait
Born	June 22, 1902 Aguas Buenas, Puerto Rico
Died	December 12, 1994 San Juan, Puerto Rico
Occupation	poet, playwright, journalist
Nationality	Puerto Rico
Literary movement	Generation of the 1930s
Spouse	Belén Zequeira
Children	Belén, Mercedes, María Cecilia

Luis Rechani Agrait (June 22, 1902 in Aguas Buenas, Puerto Rico – December 12, 1994 in San Juan, Puerto Rico), was a Puerto Rican poet, journalist, and playwright.

After schooling in Aguas Buenas and Río Piedras, Rechani Agrait moved to the US to study Natural Sciences at Harvard and Richmond. Returning to Puerto Rico in 1924, he worked on various newspapers (particularly El Mundo and El Nuevo Día) and in teaching.

His literary work can be situated as part of the "Generation of the 1930s," and paid particular attention to social and historical issues.

Publications

• Páginas de color de rosa: Libro de lectura para segundo año (1928) (book intended for second graders)
• Una nube en el viento (1929) (poems for children)

Plays

• Mi señoría (1940)
• Todos los ruiseñores cantan (1964)
• ¿Cómo se llama esta flor? (1965)
• Tres piraguas en un día de calor (1970) - an evening of three-one act comedies (El Tesoro, La Compañía, El Pececito Dorado)
• Llora en el atardecer la fuente (1971)
• ¡Oh, dorada ilusión de alas abiertas! (1978)
• El extraño caso del señor Oblomós (1981) - based on the novel Oblonov, by Russian writer Ivan A. Goncharov

See also

• List of Puerto Rican writers
• List of Puerto Ricans
• Puerto Rican literature

External links

• brief biography