and insight. In his works, he makes an emphasis of the pride that he feels for all things Puerto Rican. A collection of his Paliques was published in 1913. Some of his other works include the novels Hacía Un Lejano Sol, Mi Volutad Se Ha Muerto and La Leyenda Benaventina. Canales presentes many lectures, including some in Argentina, Peru, Uruguay, Panama, and Venezuela. Death On September 14, 1923 Nemesio Canales was on board the steamer San Lorenzo bound for New York City with the intention of going to Washington, D.C. as a legal assistant to a legislative Puerto Rican commission when he died. He was buried at the Santa María Magdalena de Pazzis Cemetery. Reburial In August 2011, Jayuya mayor Georgie González petitioned San Juan mayor Jorge Santini to exhume Canales' body to be interred in Jayuya, to which the latter accepted. Canales' body was exhumed from the Santa María Magdalena de Pazzis Cemetery in the Old San Juan and taken to the Canales Family Residence Museum, where he was interred beside the house the same day. A message written by Nemesio Canales during his lifetime is inscribed on his new tomb, which reads: Legacy Puerto Rico awards the Nemesio Canales Award in Literature every year to outstanding young writers, and has named a public housing project in San Juan named after him. His native town, Jayuya, erected a statue in his honor, sculpted by well-known Puerto Rican sculptor Tomás Batista, and named the town square after him. Jayuya also converted the house in which Nemesio and his sister were raised into a museum. In Ponce, he is honored at the Illustrious Ponce Citizens Plaza in the Tricentennial Park. Notable family members His younger sister, Blanca Canales Torresola, was a leader of the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party which was presided by Pedro Albizu Campos. In October 30, 1950, she led the Jayuya Uprising revolt against United States colonial rule. Her cousins were Elio Torresola, Griselio Torresola one of two Puerto Rican nationalists who attempted to assassinate United States President Harry Truman and Doris Torresola, all high-ranking members of the party involved in the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party Revolts of the 1950s. See also List of Puerto Ricans List of Puerto Rican writers Puerto Rican literature Notes References External links Famous Puerto Ricans 1878 births 1923 deaths Burials at Santa María Magdalena de Pazzis Cemetery People from Jayuya, Puerto Rico Puerto