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 Шаблон:Lang, and the biography of José de Espronceda, a Spanish poet.
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
Шаблон:Lang,[8] featuring the story of an adventurous young man who travels back to Шаблон:Lang from Spain. Las Antillas were the islands of Cuba, Puerto Rico, Martinica, Santo Domingo, Haiti, Jamaica, Guadalupe, St. Thomas, and Trinidad.
