Emilio Belaval Maldonado

Emilio Belaval Maldonado S. (born November 8, 1903 - died 1972) served for 9 years as an Associate Justice of the Puerto Rico Supreme Court from 1953 to 1967.

Belaval Maldonado was born in Fajardo, Puerto Rico, and graduated from the University of Puerto Rico School of Law in 1927. In the field of laws, was district judge, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court appointed by Puerto Rico Governor Luis Muñoz Marín and Secretary of the Hayes Committee, who was in charge of the investigation of the events in the Ponce massacre.[1]

From very young Belaval Maldonado felt a love for letters and his first verses appeared in a Puerto Rico illustrated magazine, when he was just 14 years old. Belaval Maldonado devoted himself to the cultivation of the tale, from their initial two books: El Libro Azul (1918) and Cuentos para Celegiales (1922). In his stories he reflects about the Puerto Rican social reality.[2]

Belaval Maldonado died in 1972 in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

References
  1. "Language and Literature: Belaval Maldonado Emilio S." enciclopediapr.org. 13 March 2014. Archived from the original on 13 March 2014. Retrieved 3 January 2020.
  2. Cortés, E.; Cortes, E.; Barrea-Marlys, M.; ProQuest (Firm) (2003). Encyclopedia of Latin American Theater. ABC-Clio ebook. Greenwood Press. p. 420. ISBN 978-0-313-29041-1. Retrieved 3 January 2020.
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Preceded by
A. Cecil Snyder		 Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Puerto Rico
1953-1967		 Succeeded by
Hiram Torres Rigual


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