Edna Coll

Edna Coll Pujals (July 24, 1906 – November 19, 2002) was a Puerto Rican educator and author. She was president of the Society of Puerto Rican Authors in San Juan. Coll was also the founder of the Academy of Fine Arts in Puerto Rico.[1]

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Coll and the second or maternal family name is Pujals.
Edna Coll
Born
Edna Coll Pujals

(1906-07-24)July 24, 1906
Arecibo, Puerto Rico
DiedNovember 19, 2002(2002-11-19) (aged 96)
San Juan, Puerto Rico
Alma materUniversity of Puerto Rico (PhD)
OccupationEducator, author
Children2; including Fufi Santori
Parent(s)
RelativesCayetano Coll y Toste (grandfather)
José Coll y Cuchí (uncle)
Isabel Cuchí Coll (cousin)

Early life and education

Edna Coll Pujals was born in Arecibo, Puerto Rico. Her parents were Cayetano Coll y Cuchí, a former President of Puerto Rico House of Representatives[2] and Carmen Pujol Toste. Coll received her primary and secondary education in San Juan. She earned a doctorate in literature and arts from the University of Puerto Rico.[3]

Career

Coll was the president of the local chapter of the American League of Professional Artists.[4] She founded the Academy of Fine Arts in Puerto Rico in 1941. The academy, which is now known as the "Academia Edna Coll" (The Edna Coll Academy) and situated in San Juan, has served as the exposition center of art works by many of the Spaniard artists who fled Spain during the Spanish Civil War of the 1930s. Among the artists whose work has been exposed there are Angel Botello, Carlos Marichal, Cristobal Ruiz and Francisco Vazquez.[5] Coll who presided over the academy from 1941 to 1954, was also a professor of fine arts at the University of Puerto Rico. In 1982, she served as president of the Society of the Puerto Rican Author.

According to the editorial of "Indice informativo de la novela hispanoamericana, Volume 5":

"Dr. Edna Coll is known in the Latin American literary world for having consecrated more than twenty years to unravel the sense of fiction creation in Spanish-speaking America, and to organize this sense in synthesis and perspectives which surpass the nations where each one of these authors write."[6]

Personal life

Coll came from a family of Puerto Rican educators, politicians and writers. Her grandfather Cayetano Coll y Toste (1850–1930), was a historian and writer.[7] Her brother, Cayetano Coll y Pujol was a prominent attorney and judge. Her uncle José Coll y Cuchí was the founder of the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party[2] and her cousin Isabel Cuchí Coll was a journalist and author.[8]

Coll was married to Jose Santori and had two children, Vicente Santori Coll, an attorney and Fufi Santori.[8][9] On November 19, 2002, she died in San Juan.[9]

Selected works
  • Coll, Edna (1965). Chile y los chilenos en las novelas de Joaquín Edwards Bello (in Spanish). Ediciones Juan Ponce de León.
  • Coll, Edna (1974). Indice informativo de la novela hispanoamericana (1 ed.). Editorial Universitaria, University of Puerto Rico. ISBN 0-8477-2005-5. OCLC 1743619.
  • Coll, Edna (1994). El valle de los caídos (in Spanish). Publicaciones Yuquiyú.
  • Coll, Edna. (1999). Florilegio. Editorial Plaza Mayor. ISBN 1-56328-158-9. OCLC 44409223.

References
  1. "Figuras Historicas De Puerto Rico, Vol. 2” ; Eitor: Adolfo R. Lopez; Page 5 and 6; 2000. Publisher: Editorial Codillera, Inc.; ISBN 0-88495-188-X.
  2. "Edna Coll Pujol Vida Y Literatura Puerto Rico Ensayos Biography"; Biography & Autobiography; Language: Spanish; 1st Edition, Illustrated; Publication Year: 19720000
  3. "Tras las Huellas de Nuestro Paso"; by: Ildelfonso López; Publisher: AEELA, 1998
  4. "Biblioteca Digital Puertorriqueña". Archived from the original on October 6, 2011. Retrieved December 5, 2019.
  5. "La aportación del exilio español a las artes plásticas en Puerto Rico"; by: María del Pilar González Lamela
  6. Editorial: "Indice informativo de la novela hispanoamericana, Volume 5"
  7. Biografías – Cayetano Coll y Toste Archived July 9, 2011, at the Wayback Machine at www.zonai.com Nuevo Dia]
  8. ""NACIONALIDAD Y CIUDADANÍA"; El Nuevo Dia". Archived from the original on July 19, 2011. Retrieved July 13, 2011.
  9. Coll family
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