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Manuel Zeno Gandía was a Puerto Rican physician, poet, novelist, journalist and politician....
Zeno Gandía, Manuel (1855–1930)
Manuel Zeno Gandía (b. 10 January 1855; d. 30 January 1930), Puerto Rican writer and politician.
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Zeno Gandía was born in Arecibo, Puerto Rico, where he attended elementary school. He did undergraduate and graduate work in medicine in Barcelona and Madrid, respectively. During this time he met the Cuban José Martí, with whom he established a friendship that influenced him in literature and politics.
Through his novels, newspaper articles, and poetry Zeno Gandía exposed the major social, economic, ethical, and political problems that afflicted Puerto Rico during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In the political arena he fought for Puerto Rican independence from Spain and from the United States.
Considerado el fundador de la novela puertorriqueña, Manuel Zeno Gandía (Puerto Rico, ) es uno de los escritores más destacados de la tendencia.In 1902 Zeno Gandía bought La Correspondencia, a newspaper in which he criticized public officials. Because of this criticism he was sued for libel by a U.S. representative, a case he won in the U.S. Supreme Court. In 1904 Zeno Gandía partici