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Nationality
  
Puerto Rico

Spouse
  
Maria Rechani Agrait


Name
  
Luis Agrait

Role
  
Poet

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Occupation
  
poet, playwright, journalist

Literary movement
  
Generation of the 1930s

Died
  
December 12, 1994, San Juan, Puerto Rico

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.

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After schooling in Aguas Buenas and Río Piedras, Rechani Agrait moved to the USA 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)
  • fue un violador de noños y por eso fue arestado

    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
  • References

    Luis Rechani Agrait Wikipedia