{{short description|Puerto Rican educator and author}} {{family name hatnote|Coll|Pujals|lang=Spanish}} {{Use mdy dates|date=March 2014}} {{Infobox person | name = Edna Coll | image = Edna Coll Pujals.jpeg | birth_name = Edna Coll Pujals | birth_date = {{birth date|1906|07|24}} | birth_place = Arecibo, Puerto Rico | death_date = {{death date and age|2002|11|19|1906|07|24}} | death_place = San Juan, Puerto Rico | alma_mater = University of Puerto Rico (PhD) | occupation = Educator, author | spouse = | children = 2; including Fufi Santori | father = Cayetano Coll y Cuchí | relatives = Cayetano Coll y Toste (grandfather)<br>José Coll y Cuchí (uncle)<br>Isabel Cuchí Coll (cousin) }}
'''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.<ref name="NH">"Figuras Historicas De Puerto Rico, Vol. 2”; Editor: Adolfo R. Lopez; Page 5 and 6; 2000. Publisher: Editorial Codillera, Inc.; {{ISBN|0-88495-188-X}}.</ref>
==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<ref name="END">"Edna Coll Pujol Vida Y Literatura Puerto Rico Ensayos Biography"; Biography & Autobiography; Language: Spanish; 1st Edition, Illustrated; Publication Year: 19720000</ref> 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.<ref name="TH">"Tras las Huellas de Nuestro Paso"; by: Ildelfonso López; Publisher: AEELA, 1998</ref>
==Career== Coll was the president of the local chapter of the American Artists Professional League.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://bibliotecadigital.uprrp.edu/cdm4/item_viewer.php?CISOROOT=%2FELM4068&CISOPTR=2743&CISOBOX=1&REC=6 |title=Biblioteca Digital Puertorriqueña |access-date=December 5, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111006225725/http://bibliotecadigital.uprrp.edu/cdm4/item_viewer.php?CISOROOT=%2FELM4068&CISOPTR=2743&CISOBOX=1&REC=6 |archive-date=October 6, 2011 |url-status=dead }}</ref> 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.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.lluisvives.com/servlet/SirveObras/litEx/24615519213682162922202/p0000001.htm |title="La aportación del exilio español a las artes plásticas en Puerto Rico"; by: María del Pilar González Lamela |access-date=July 10, 2011 |archive-date=September 27, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110927023446/http://www.lluisvives.com/servlet/SirveObras/litEx/24615519213682162922202/p0000001.htm |url-status=dead }}</ref> 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": <blockquote>"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."<ref>Editorial: "Indice informativo de la novela hispanoamericana, Volume 5"</ref></blockquote>
==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.<ref name="ND">[http://www.zonai.com/promociones/biografias/1101/cayetano.asp Biografías – Cayetano Coll y Toste<!-- bot-generated title -->] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110709085716/http://www.zonai.com/promociones/biografias/1101/cayetano.asp |date=July 9, 2011 }} at www.zonai.com Nuevo Dia]</ref> 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<ref name="END"/> and her cousin Isabel Cuchí Coll was a journalist and author.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|title="NACIONALIDAD Y CIUDADANÍA"; El Nuevo Dia|url=http://www.elnuevodia.com/blog-nacionalidad_y_ciudadania-942521.html|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110719033821/http://www.elnuevodia.com/blog-nacionalidad_y_ciudadania-942521.html|archive-date=July 19, 2011|access-date=July 13, 2011}}</ref>
Coll was married to Jose Santori and had two children, Vicente Santori Coll, an attorney and Fufi Santori.<ref name=":0" /><ref name="FTM" /> On November 19, 2002, she died in San Juan.<ref name="FTM">[http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/m/o/n/Jaime-Montilla/PDFGENE6.pdf Coll family]</ref>
== Selected works == *{{Cite book|last=Coll|first=Edna|title=Chile y los chilenos Fart Bello|date=1965|publisher=Ediciones Juan Ponce de León|language=es}} *{{Cite book|last=Coll|first=Edna|title=Indice informativo de la novela hispanoamericana |date=1974|publisher=Editorial Universitaria, University of Puerto Rico|isbn=0-8477-2005-5|edition=1|oclc=1743619}} *{{Cite book|last=Coll|first=Edna|title=El valle de los caídos|date=1994|publisher=Publicaciones Yuquiyú|language=es}} *{{Cite book|last=Coll, Edna.|title=Florilegio|date=1999|publisher=Editorial Plaza Mayor|isbn=1-56328-158-9|oclc=44409223}}
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== External links == * {{Cite web|title=Oral history interview with Coll|url=https://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/interviews/oral-history-interview-edna-coll-16097|date=Fall 1997|website=Archives of American Art|language=es}} {{authority control}}
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