BIOGRAPHY OF ROQUE DALTON

(San Salvador, 1935 - near Resume 1975) Salvadoran poet whose work,
colloquial style and socially committed, was a participant in the renewal
of Latin American poetry of the 1960s Born in the popular neighborhood
of the capital San Jos Salvadoran Roque Dalton Young attended his first
studies in religious schools St. Therese of the Child Jesus and the
Baptist, to enter later in the Externado San Jos, where he earned a
graduate from high school in 1953. From a young age he showed a
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social

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revolutionary movements fighting for social improvements in Central

America. In 1956, while studying law at the University of El Salvador, he
was one of the founding members of the University Literary Circle, and
in 1957 traveled to Moscow as Salvadoran delegate in the Sixth Festival
of Youth and Students for Peace and Friendship. He had previously been
in Chile for higher studies in law (1953), supplemented career in his
homeland with the Social Sciences (1954-1959), and the University of
Mexico with Ethnology (1961).

BIOGRAPHY OF HUGO NICE

(La Union, 1917 - El Salvador, 1985) Poet, novelist and short story
writer whose poetry Salvador is characterized by its religious and
metaphysical mark, as in the poem biography pain Catholic (1943).
Committed look defines its narrative and essays.
Hugo Lindo studied law and social sciences at the University of El
Salvador, for which his doctorate in 1948. His thesis, Divorce in El
Salvador, was awarded a gold medal by authorities. He served as
ambassador in Bogota and Madrid and became Minister of Education

(1961). He was later appointed director of the Office of Cultural Affairs

of the Organization of American States. He belonged to the Salvadoran
Academy of Language, of which he was director emeritus, and was a
corresponding member of the Academy of Spain, Chile, Colombia and
Honduras.
His poetry aims to achieve lyrical revelation through clarity and
transparency, and is also an act of knowledge, a search for landlocked
forms in reality. The accuracy and poetic clarity, however, show a
struggle against the transience of life, things and the words themselves:
"And every time I think I say a word, is not this, not a sound network
covers a vast empty. . Is not this, no. Is not this yet. Best erase one by
one, all the words written "feeling of transience supplying all trying to
beat his redemptive power of words.

CLAUDIA LARS
Margarita Carmen Brannon Vega, born in Armenia, 1899 and died in San
Salvador in 1974. Salvadoran Poet, one of the most outstanding lyrical
voices of Central twentieth century.
Daughter of Peter Patrick Brannon, American engineer, and Salvadoran
Zelayanda Carmen Vega. Claudia Lars studied in the school Assumption
of the city of Santa Ana, where the girl opted for the humanities.
Religion and poetry were linked in your home to increase their natural
sensitivity. From early on he was influenced by the ancient and Spanish
classics (Gongora, Quevedo, Fray Luis de Leon) and Ruben Dario.
Poet with only seventeen published a short book of poems that went
unnoticed: Sad mirages, which saw the light thanks to the poet Juan
Jose Canas, one of his early mentors. In 1919 his father sent to the

United States, to stay with relatives in Pennsylvania. There he met Le

Roy Beers, whom he married after a short courtship. The poet was
installed in the company of her new husband in the Brooklyn
neighborhood of New York, where he served as professor of Spanish
language in the Berlitz School. In 1927 I had the opportunity to return
home with his spouse. In the Salvadoran capital, in late 1927 their first
child, Le Roy Beers Brannon, who would be the one of Claudia Lars was
born.

ALFREDO ESPINO
(Edgardo Najarro Alfredo Espino, Ahuachapn, 1900 - San Salvador,
1928) Salvadoran Poet from publishing his only book, Jcaras Sad, has
been one of the most widely read in his country lyrical and is considered
one of the authors Central American literature classics.
He was born into a large family (second of eight siblings), he was son of
the poet Alfredo Espino, a member of a prominent dynasty of
professors, doctors and writers. The young Alfredo received an excellent
academic education ended in 1927 when he received his doctorate at
the Faculty of Law and Social Sciences of the University of El Salvador
with a thesis on aesthetics sociology.
At an early age he began to publish literary collaborations in magazines
and student Lumen view and in newspapers The Press and Journal of El
Salvador. He led a bohemian life and dissipated that led to fall in
frequent alcoholic crisis, one of which took his life when he was little
more than twenty-eight years old. His remains, buried in the first
instance in the General Cemetery of San Salvador, were later transferred

to the call Crypt of Poets, in the cemetery of the Gardens of

Remembrance.
His compositions, scattered loose papers and other publications, were
compiled by his father in order to bring them to the printer. A part of
this collection, prefaced by an illuminating text by the poet Alberto
Masferrer, was published in 1932 in the journal Social Reform. Because
of its impact, in 1936 he came out in book form a more complete and
representative collection of his work was titled Jcaras sad.
DAVID ESCOBAR GALINDO
David Escobar Galindo is a poet, novelist and Salvadoran jurist born in
Santa Ana, El Salvador. He is a Doctor of Law and Social Sciences, a
graduate of the University of El Salvador, Founder and Rector of the
University "Dr. Jose Matias Delgado," and a regular columnist for the
newspaper La Prensa Grafica. Between 1990 and 1992 he participated in
the government commission negotiating the peace process that ended
the civil war in El Salvador. It is a full member of the Salvadoran
Academy of Language and Director of the same since 2006; winner of
the Floral Games of Quetzaltenango, Guatemala in the field of Poetry in
1980,1981 and 1983; and he has been named Son Meritsimo of the
City of Santa Ana.
It is considered one of the most prolific and recognized in Salvadoran
literature authors. His published work includes the cleat (1975), The
Book of Lilian (1976), penitential Sonnets (1980), Tree without Truce
(1996), poems in the War Prayer (1989) Deer and hummingbirds (1996)
and the novel A Crack in Water (1972). He has prepared several poetry
anthologies as The Tree of All, reading Hispanic American (1979) and
Salvadoran Patriotic Pages (1988).