Antonio Cortón

Antonio Cortón (May 29, 1854 in San Juan – September 6, 1913 in Madrid) was a Puerto Rican writer, journalist and literary critic. He traveled to and from Spain and was a newspaper editor for a Barcelona paper during the Spanish Restoration, after Spain lost Puerto Rico and other colonies in the Spanish–American War. He wrote Las Antillas, and the biography of José de Espronceda, a Spanish poet.

Caricature of Antonio Cortón, by Mecachis and published in Madrid Cómico in 1889[1]

Life and career

Born in San Juan, Puerto Rico on 29 May 1854,[2] Cortón collaborated on newspaper publications such as: La Araña, Don Simplicio, El Progreso, La Razón, El Tribuno and El Buscapié and El Correo de Ultramar,[3] and newspapers in Madrid such as El Globo, Revista Ilustrada and El Imparcial.[4]

In 1879 he moved to Spain with his widowed mother.[5]

In the March 1898 elections he obtained a deputy seat for Guayama[6] and Mayagüez districts in Puerto Rico.[7] By 1902, he was editor and interim director of the Barcelona edition of El Liberal and collaborated on La Vanguardia. He died in 1913 in Madrid.

Works
  • Las Antillas (1898),[8] featuring the story of an adventurous young man who travels back to Las Antillas from Spain. Las Antillas were the islands of Cuba, Puerto Rico, Martinica, Santo Domingo, Haiti, Jamaica, Guadalupe, St. Thomas, and Trinidad.
  • Pandemonium:crítica y sátira (1889)[9][10]
  • La separación de mandos en Puerto Rico[11]
  • La Literata (1883)[12]
  • Espronceda (1906), a biography of José de Espronceda.[13]

References
  1. "Escritores portorriqueños. Antonio Cortón". Madrid Cómico. Madrid. IX (333). 6 July 1889. ISSN 1695-0216.
  2. "Antonio Cortón". El Liberal. Madrid. 12 (258): 1. 7 September 1913. ISSN 2174-6648.
  3. "PUERTO RICO EL CORREO DE ULTRAMAR 1895 POLITICO GUERRA DE CUBA PUERTO RICO GENERAL GAMIR". todocoleccion.net (in Spanish). 12 August 2019. Retrieved 24 August 2019.
  4. "Ensayo de un catálogo de periodistas españoles del siglo XIX". Internet Archive. 21 July 2010. Retrieved 24 August 2019.
  5. Juncos, M.F. (1913). Antología portorriqueña: prosa y verso, para lectura escolar (in Spanish). Filadelfia, Hinds, Noble & Eldredge. p. 269. Retrieved 24 August 2019.
  6. "Cortón, Antonio. 40. Elecciones 27.3.1898 Guayama". Buscador histórico de diputados 1810-1977. Congreso de los Diputados.
  7. "Cortón, Antonio. 40. Elecciones 27.3.1898 Mayagüez". Buscador histórico de diputados 1810-1977. Congreso de los Diputados.
  8. Cortón, Antonio. "Las Antillas". dLOC Home. Retrieved 24 August 2019.
  9. Pandemonium : crítica y sátira (Book, 1889) [WorldCat.org]. 22 February 1999. OCLC 11613697. Retrieved 24 August 2019 – via WorldCat.org.
  10. de Wilson Wilson (baronesa de), Emilia Serrano (1903). El mundo literario americano: escritores contemporáneos, semblanzas, poesías, apreciaciones, pinceladas ... (in Spanish). Maucci. p. 266. Retrieved 24 August 2019.
  11. La separación de mandos en Puerto Rico (Book, 1890) [WorldCat.org]. 22 February 1999. OCLC 434448130. Retrieved 24 August 2019 – via WorldCat.org.
  12. La Literata. Agua fuerte. (Book, 1883) [WorldCat.org]. 22 February 1999. OCLC 559665057. Retrieved 24 August 2019 – via WorldCat.org.
  13. Espronceda (Book, 1906) [WorldCat.org]. 22 February 1999. OCLC 645002759. Retrieved 24 August 2019 – via WorldCat.org.

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