The Puerto Rican Literature Project

Ramón Juliá Marín was born in Utuado, Puerto Rico in 1878 and died in 1917. He was a poet, novelist, and journalist. In 1895, he founded the literary institution, La Aurora de Borinquen, where he began to produce poetry. In 1899, he relocated to Ponce, Puerto Rico and later to San Juan, Puerto Rico in 1904. Over the course of his life, Juliá Marín contributed to numerous newspapers, including El Múcaro, El Puerto Rico Fun, La Correspondencia, La Bruja, El Heraldo Español, La Correspondencia de Puerto Rico, Puerto Rico Ilustrado, and La Democracia. He also penned a column titled "Serpentinas" under the pseudonym Huacarí in El Águila. In 1906, he founded La Gaceta de la Policía, and in 1907, was appointed by the mayor of Arecibo to lead El Correo del Norte, the city's official Partido Unido newspaper. In 1914, he established the Asociación de Periodistas San Juan, an organization dedicated to defending press freedom. Juliá Marín authored a trilogy of serialized novels: Tierra adentro (El Correo del Norte, 1911), La gleba (Puerto Rico Ilustrado, 1912), and Villa de héroes ( Puerto Rico Ilustrado, 1913).

Works Cited

Feliú Matilla, Fernando. “Apuntes biográficos del autor.” Tierra adentro, by Ramón Juliá Marín, La Editorial Universidad de Puerto Rico, 2006, pp. 129-47, 237-40.

Rivera de Álvarez, Josefina y Manuel Álvarez Nazario. Antología general de la literatura puertorriqueña. Ediciones Partenón, Madrid, 1982.