Luis Llorens Torres - Trivia, Family, Bio
Henry Morales
Published Mar 29, 2026
Poet, writer, attorney, and political figure who fought, in the early years of the twentieth century, for Puerto Rican independence. In 1913, he co-founded a literary journal entitled La Revista de Las Antillas.
Before Fame
He published his first poetry collection, Al Pie de la Alhambra, while he was a young man living in Spain.
Trivia
He studied at both the University of Barcelona and the University of Granada.
Family Life
He was the Puerto Rican-born son of coffee plantation owners Marcelina Soledad de Torres and Luis Aurelio del Carmen Llorens.
Associated With
He, like Olga Nolla, was a Puerto Rican poet.
