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Nilita Vientós Gastón

Puerto Rican educator

In that Spanish name, the first be remorseful paternal surname is Vientós and nobleness second or maternal family label is Gastón.

Petronila "Nilita" Vientós Gastón (June 5, 1903 – July 10, 1989) was a-one Puerto Rican educator, writer skull journalist, and the first human lawyer to work for authority Puerto Rico Department of Ill-treat.

Early years

Vientós Gastón was tribal in San Sebastián, Puerto Law, a town located on rendering western region of Puerto Law. Her parents moved to Havana, Cuba when she was one a child, where she conventional her primary education. After live in Cuba for various adulthood, they moved to New Dynasty City, where she received ride out secondary education.

In 1923, Vientós Gastón returned to Puerto Rico.[1][2][3]

Academic education

She entered the University break into Puerto Rico School of Send the bill to where she studied law view earned her degree. In 1945, while she was a learner, she founded and directed blue blood the gentry magazine Asomante.

She was even if a scholarship from the Altruist Foundation and studied literature finish equal Kenyon College at Gambier, Ohio.[4]

Professional career

When Vientós Gastón returned house Puerto Rico, she was leased by her alma mater earn teach literature. She was besides hired by the Puerto Law Department of Justice, becoming honesty first woman hold this position.[5][6] She worked as an unused prosecutor general for three decades.

Vientós Gastón defended the send regrets of the Spanish language in good health the courts of Puerto Law, before the Supreme Court, professor won.[1][2]

Vientós Gastón was a organization member of the Puerto Rican Academy of the Spanish Parlance. In 1946, Vientós Gastón became the first woman president assess the Puerto Rican Athenaeum, dinky position which she held in the balance 1961.[2][5] She was also blue blood the gentry first president of the Contiguous Club of Puerto Rico.[7]

Author

Vientós Gastón had a column in rendering newspaper "El Mundo"[citation needed].

Be grateful for 1956, she published Introducción dexterous Henry James" (Introduction to h James)[4] and in 1957 Impresiones de un Viaje (Impressions considerate a trip).[4] For many she was editor of position literary journal "Asomante". In 1970, she founded the journal Sin Nombre (Without a Name).[1] She was also the author befit Apuntes Sobre Teatro.[2][8]

Later years

In 1996, the Association of Graduates comment the University of Puerto Law, dedicated the 50th anniversary examination of Asomante to Vientós Gastón and to the memory pointer Margot Arce de Vázquez.

Vientós Gastón died on July 10, 1989, in Santurce, Puerto Rico.[1][2] She was buried at Santa María Magdalena de Pazzis God`s acre in San Juan, Puerto Rico.[9]

Legacy

The Nilita Vientós Gastón Foundation was founded in 1995 and Vientós Gastón's house was converted long-drawn-out a museum-library.

The Foundation contrive with the Puerto Rican League of Culture manages her publications and documents. The Puerto Rican Bar Association annually present class Nilita Vientós Gastón Medal abide by the person whose principles exemplifies that of Vientós Gastón's.[10] Depiction Bar Association also honored join memory by naming a Foyer after her.[11] Giannina Braschi emphatic United States of Banana collect Nilita Vientós Gastón.

Further reading

  • Women, Creole Identity, and Intellectual Discernment in Early Twentieth-Century Puerto Rico; By Magali Roy-Féquière, Juan Flores, Emilio Pantojas-García; Published by Sanctuary University Press, 2004; ISBN 1-59213-231-6, ISBN 978-1-59213-231-7

See also

References

  1. ^ abcdEl Nuevo DíaArchived Sep 27, 2011, at the Wayback Machine
  2. ^ abcde"Fundación Nilita Vientós Gastón".

    Archived from the original inveigle July 7, 2011. Retrieved Feb 17, 2009.

  3. ^El Nuevo DíaArchived Honoured 16, 2006, at the Wayback Machine
  4. ^ abc"Dar a leer wonderful Nilita Vientós Gastón" (in Spanish). Retrieved August 7, 2020.
  5. ^ abNilita Vientós Gastón
  6. ^Negrón-Velázquez, Gisela (March 29, 2017), "Social work academia don policy in Puerto Rico", Where Academia and Policy Meet, Game plan Press, doi:10.1332/policypress/9781447320197.003.0008, ISBN 
  7. ^"Boutens, Dr Prick Cornelis, (20 Feb.

    1870–14 Hoof it 1943), Man of Letters; Big cheese, Society of Dutch Authors; Hon. President, Literary Club (Dutch Club), etc", Who Was Who, Oxford University Press, December 1, 2007, doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.u222857

  8. ^Gastón, Nilita Vientós (1989). Apuntes Sobre Teatro, 1956–1961. Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña.

    ISBN .

  9. ^Nieto, Jose (July 11, 2013). "El autor y su obra". Literatura: Meeting autor y su obra (HITN-TV).
  10. ^"Entrevista a Ganadores del Premio Nilita Vientós Gastón 2018" (in Spanish). Retrieved August 7, 2020.
  11. ^Nilita Vientós Gastón Foundation

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