Fortunato Vizcarrondo

Fortunato Vizcarrondo Y Rodón (1895-1977) was a Afro-Puerto Rican composer, professor, and poet. He is best known for his poem "¿Y Tu Abuela Donde Esta?".[1][2]

Fortunato Vizcarrondo
BornFortunato Vizcarrondo Y Rodón
March 13, 1895
Carolina, Puerto Rico
DiedNovember 18, 1977 (aged 82)
Santurce, Puerto Rico
Resting placeCementerio Municipal de Carolina
OccupationPoet
Alma materUniversity of Puerto Rico
SpouseGenerosa Martínez Y Pérez (1901-1982)
Children8
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Life and career

Early life

Fortunato Vizcarrondo Y Rodón was born on March 13, 1895, in Carolina, Puerto Rico, the son of Fortunato Vizcarrondo Y Mongrand and Rosenda Asunción Rodón Y Quiñonez.

Personal life

He married Generosa Martínez Pérez in 1918, gaining a step-daughter named Iluminada Díaz Y Martínez (1917).[3] The marriage produced seven children:

  • Rosa A. (1919)
  • Fortunato (1920)
  • Elmer Americus (1921)
  • Aurea Asunción (1922)
  • Dolores (1926)
  • Mildred (1928)
  • Carmen Lydia (1940)

In the last years of Fortunato's life, he suffered from ill health. In December that year, he had a diabetic stroke and slipped into a coma. He spent two weeks in the Old San Juan Hospital, where he died on November 18, 1977, at 82. Fortunato's body was interred in The Cementerio Municipal de Carolina.[4][5]

Works
  • Dinga y Mandinga (1976)

References
  1. "Fortunato Vizcarrondo". Fundación Nacional para la Cultura Popular (in Spanish). Retrieved 2022-03-03.
  2. Puerto Rican Poetry: An Anthology from Aboriginal to Contemporary Times. University of Massachusetts Press. 2007. ISBN 978-1-55849-561-6.
  3. Social and Population Schedules of the 1935 Special Census of Puerto Rico, compiled 1935–1936. Microfilm publication M1881, 88 rolls. ARC ID: 2791195. Records of the Bureau of the Census, 1790–2007, Record Group 29. National Archives at Washington, D.C.
  4. "Carolina redescubre las aportaciones históricas de Fortunato Vizcarrondo". Periódico Presencia. 2013-05-23. Retrieved 2022-02-28.
  5. "Fortunato Vizcarrondo". www.carolina787.com (in Spanish). Retrieved 2022-02-28.
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