Trinidad "Trina" Padilla de Sanz, Date of Birth, Date of Death
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About Trinidad "Trina" Padilla de Sanz
- Trinidad "Trina" Padilla de Sanz (June 7, 1894 in Vega Baja â April 26, 1957 in Arecibo) She was a Puerto Rican writer.
- She was born in Vega Baja and adopted at Arecibo; she was a piano teacher, storyteller, and poet.
- Daughter of the doctor and poet José Gualberto Padilla, known as "El Caribe" ("The Caribbean").
- Thus, Trina Padilla de Sanz was known as "La Hija del Caribe" ("The Daughter of the Caribbean").
- She studied at Ruiz Arnau high school in Arecibo.
- At the age of 18, she married Ăngel Sanz and translated to Madrid and enrolled at Real Conservatorio and took piano classes with the professor Vasco Juan MarĂa Guelbenzu.
- After receiving her diploma, she returned to Puerto Rico, living in MayagĂŒez, San Juan and finally Arecibo, where she died.
- At Arecibo, the marriage of Sanz-Padilla acquired a property that belonged to Francisco Ulanga and restored it to live in it.
- Along with Librada RodrĂguez and MarĂa Cadilla de MartĂnez she created the "Liga Femenina, Female league" with the purpose of studing women's rights y how they affect society.She wrote for the newspaper: El Heraldo Español and collaborated with other newspapers: Alma Latina, Puerto Rico Ilustrado, El Mundo and El Imparcial. She wrote eight books, three of them on verses: RebeldĂa in 1918, De mi collar in 1926 and CĂĄlices abiertos in 1943.
- The other books are stories, narrations, chronicles of art, and one about womanhood.She died at Arecibo on April 26, 1957 at 93 years old.
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