biography
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| lived:
| (1921– )
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| biography:
| Scholar, born in San Juan, Puerto Rico, USA. He was the driving force behind the creation of the influential Institute of Puerto Rican Culture, which he headed from its foundation (1955–72). He became director of the governor's Office of Cultural Affairs (1973–6), and launched the Graduate Center for Advanced Studies on Puerto Rico and the Caribbean (1976). In 1993 he was the first Latin-American to win UNESCO's Picasso Medal, the same year that President Clinton awarded him the Charles Frankel Award of the Humanities. |
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