The Puerto Rican Literature Project

Enrique Ramírez Brau was born in 1894 in Añasco, Puerto Rico. He was a poet, journalist, historiographer, and grandson of the historian Salvador Brau. He attended elementary and high school in San Juan, Puerto Rico and New York, New York. In 1912 he competed in a literary contest sponsored by the Ateneo Puertorriqueño, with a sonnet entitled “El sacristán San Marín.” He worked for a time at the bookstore, Boletín Mercantil de Puerto Rico, in the capital, and later worked for its journal of the same name. He also worked as an editor in other newspapers, such as El Imparcial, Democracia, and El Mundo. By the 1930s, Ramírez Brau began researching and publishing in the field of history and genealogy. In 1946 the Institute of Puerto Rican Literature honored him with a journalism prize. His works include Lira rebelde (Tip. El Águila, 1925), and Bajo tu cielo azul (1928), Investigación histórica acerca del escudo de armas de Puerto Rico (Imprenta Romero, 1937),Orígenes portorriqueños (Imprenta Baldrich,1942) El arquero soy yo: sonetos (Impreso en Casa Baldrich, 1944), and Cofresí: Historia y genealogía de un pirada, 1791-1825 (Impreso en Casa Baldrich, 1945).

Works Cited

“Añasco, Puerto Rico.” BoricuaOnline, https://boricuaonline.com/en/anasco-puerto-rico/. 

Rivera de Álvarez, Josefina. Diccionario de literatura puertorriqueña. Tome 2, vol. 1, Instituto de cultura puertorriqueña, San Juan, Puerto Rico, 1974.