Manlio Argueta

He was born in San Miguel, on November 24, 1935.

His poetry is lyrical, he has greater participation in the external, without the
misciting of his intimate way of doing poetry, somewhat thoughtful, without losing
emotion; This balance does not constrain it; We always find expressive
surveillance in the verse; Hence their poems give the feeling of intemporrality of
remoteness. He currently directs the University Library of the University of El
Salvador, (1996).
Some of his works are:
· On the Constado de la Luz, (poetry), 1968.
· The Valley of the Hamacas, (narrative), 1968.
· Little Red Riding Hood in the Red Zone, a novel prize at Casa de las Américas
Cuba, 1976.
· Rosario de la Paz, (novel) 1996.
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Alfredo Espino

He was born in Ahuachapán in 1900. He died in San Salvador in August 1928. His
only book is sad jícaras, being one of the most edited in our country; Its author is
one of the most read and commented but not studied or analyzed in their
experience. Espino fully typifies the inconsistent poet, which assumes the national
historical problem by force of colors, flavors and perfumes in a bad time and
atmosphere. He has a delicate poetic, I am looking for ours with a lyrical vision; the
one that presented with a simple style, easy to capture, therefore, without formal
complications; He wrote sonnets, romances and free verses. His work is very
youthful and therefore he can miss creative vision, he delivered his work but the
myopic or epidermic critics did not know how to study it and they concretized to
mystify it due to the lack of honesty or talent of those who have made literary
criticism in our country.
His only work is: Sad Jicaras.
Roberto Armijo

It was born in Chalatenango on December 13, 1937 and dies of Cancer on March
23, 1997.
Published since 1956; His work is marked by intimate lyricism; In other Decipins of
thought, it is complicated with the immediate reality. There are his literary essays
as one performed on Ruben Dario and another that he did with Rodriguez Ruiz
about Francisco Gavidia. He also wrote theater. It appeared in "From now on"
(poetic sample of five Salvadoran poets). He was a professor at the University of
Paris in Latin American literature.
Some of his works are:
· The blind night to the heart that sings, (poetry) 1959.
· Six elegies and a poem, (poetry) 1965.
· Playing the blind hen, (Theater) 1970.
· Roberto Armijo's theater trilogy, (Theater) 1990.
· The asthma of Leviathán (narrative).
· The Luna and Blood Parajes (Poetry) 1996.
· When the lamps are turned on, (poetry) in dam 1996.
He has several unpublished works.
Francisco Gavidia

Camilo Minero engraving

Born in the department of San Miguel on December 29, 1863, he dies in San
Salvador on September 22, 1955 his full name is: Francisco Antonio Gavidia
Guandique. It is taken as the founder of our literature. Gavidia fills an era, marks a
stage.
He practiced all literary genres, and in all contributed an enriching vision of our
reality. With Gavidia we have some of the foundations to insist on the search for
ours; He has some depth that we do not find in authors before him or his
contemporaries. He discovered the French Alejandrino and taught Rubén Darío
(Nicaragua), who incorporated him into the verse written in Spanish and led him to
his last consequences. His search spirit carried him by all the directions of
literature, so some claim that his work is somewhat dispersed. Its diversity is not
fragmentation, it is a whole that shows the dedication of a man concerned with
based on a Salvadoran cultural expression. To do this, he studied the country's pre
-Hispanic and colonial past in its Central American context as well as that of our
America. Apart from his poetic work, I participate in journalistic-literary activities
and worried about education; published numerous educational -looking essays; In
1932 he was declared "Meritic Salvadoran" by the Legislative Assembly.
Some of his works are:
· Verses (poetry), 1885.
· Ursino (Theater), 1886.
· Jupiter (Theater), 1889.
· The 1901 encomendero.
· Modern history of El Salvador, 1917.

José Roberto Cea

CEA, was born in the city of Izalco, department of Sonsonate, on April 10, 1939.
In El Salvador it is one of the most prolific authors of today. He has written poetry,
narratives, novels, stories, theater, essays. Of this last genre two very important
works are; one about painting and another about theater in El Salvador.
Some critics point out that while a sector of Latin American poetry follows
European movements another sector has sought to incorporate more or less
authentic indigenism without trying to fall into imitation, which is possible to
perceive in the work of J.R. CEA. "CEA's poetry is a type of poetry that is marked
by the seal of originality. The country of each Writer defines, without a doubt, the
language and José Roberto Cea has in his way of expressing a rich lexicon of
words from there, with which he covers the telluric and the magical, the touch of
the prodigious, which reaches true art in his effort for approaching the ineffable.
"He is an author who has preferred to be an American leaning on origins. His work
leads to become aware of the national. CEA has won many awards, among the
main figure: International Poetry Prize for the Poetry of Poets and Ibero -American
writers of New York, 1965; September 15 Prize in Guatemala, 1965 and 1966;
Central American Theater Award, in Quezatenango, Guatemala, 1965; Italy Award
1972; First Prize in the Latin American Poetry Contest "Pablo Neruda" in Lima ,
Peru, 1974; and many more.
Some of his works are:
· Young poets from El Salvador, (poetic anthology), 1960.
· Cumbres scenes, (Theater), 1968.
· Released code, (poetry), 1969.
· Letters I, II and III (for high school studies).
· General anthology of poetry in El Salvador, (poetic anthology), 1971.
· Mester of mischief (erotic poetry), 1977.

Alberto Masferrer

He was born on June 24, 1868 in Tecapa (today called Alegría), Department of
Usulutan, in the East of the Republic of El Salvador, died on September 4, 1932 in
San Salvador. His name was: Vicente Alberto Masferrer Monica.
Teacher teacher for some, polemicist, speaker and journalist; thinker and defender
of the working class for others. His life was a constant, discussed and dear action,
attacked and defended, his work was always followed with interest, he never went
unnoticed. He founded the newspaper "Patria" (1928-1930) in which he raised the
best of his thinking and developed his actions so that El Salvador had a true
democracy, social, economic and political. At twenty -four he published his first
book called pages. Performance Several Public positions from Archivist of the
Nation's Accounting Office, going through editor and director of the Official Gazette
to Costa Rica and Belgium
His health was very indebble, a period of his life happened to him in a wheelchair.
But his spirit was a fight, formidable journalist who served from his vitalist vision of
the Vital Minimun in the Labor Party of the Engineer Arturo Araujo, whom he
helped to reach the Presidency of the Republic, but he and his relatives in the
Government, did not comply with With his word in favor of the people, which
allowed the broth of injustices, to stir more and explode the popular uprisings of
January 1932; The killings with which these uprisings were drowned by General
Maximiliano Hernández Martínez, affected Masferrer, who felt guilty for his
preaching in the vital minimun.
Some of his works are:
· The trial on destiny
· The seven strings of the lyre
· Damn money
o The street of death

Pedro Geoffroy Rivas

He was born in Santa Ana in 1908.

Study in Mexico was a remarkable anthropologist and linguist. His poetic work
marks a milestone in our poetic development. Rebel poet, individualistic, almost
anarchist faithful reflection of its small bourgeois origin, incorporated into our poetry
the freedom to express ourselves openly without fear of prosaism or
"anthropocentric" turns, the latter for him does not exist whenever it is poet who
presses the word. His work is influenced by Neruda (Chile), but still, there are
moments in which Rivas clicks a very personal rope, and his poetry acquires
lucidity, excited presence of a well who knows how to say his message.
Some of his works are:
· Songs in the wind, (poetry).
· Rumbos, (poetry).
· To sing tomorrow (poetry).
· Only love, (poetry), 1963.
· Yulcuicat, (poetry), 1965.
· Books of exile (poetry).
· The grandchildren of the Jaguar (poetry), 1977.
In anthropology and public linguistics
· Nahuat Toponymy of Cuscatlán.
· The Spanish we talked in El Salvador, 1969.
· The Nawat of Cuscatlán - notes for a tentative grammar-, 1969.

Salarrue

Salvador Efraín Salazar Arrué, better known by "Salarrué", was born on October
22, 1899 in the department of Sonsonate in the vicinity of the city of the same
name, on the way to Sonzacate. He died in San Salvador, on November 27, 1975.
He is one of the Salvadoran writers that we can call our classics. Salearrué when
he makes his stories, he does it based on tenderness, he has a lot of love of what
he is doing, what his characters are, overflows humanity and in doing so, he sees
everything with humanly human eyes. This is what we found in Salarrué's books:
when he wrote of our peasants and sub-urban characters, he did it with
identification and this is for us the most consistent vision of our country, in its time.
Salarrué culminated a stage of Salvadoran literature and based another with his
expressive findings, facing the national phenomenon in his works; But not only the
color and local taste and are not valuable for that, but because he knew how to
capture his moment; The essential thing about this author is his vision of a
harmonious world where men, despite their impurities and clumsiness, are
creatures that can be overcome or can be rescued for a more fair world.
Salarrue was also extraordinary as a painter and magnificent person.
Some of his works are:
· The Black Christ, (1939).
· O 'Yarkandal, (1929).
· Mud tales, (1933).
or the botija
· Approaching Ulluán, (1940).
· That and more, (1940).
· Tales of Cipotes, (1945).

Roque Dalton

He was born in San Salvador, on May 14, 1933 and died murdered on May 10 in
1975.
He studies at the University of El Salvador as well as in Mexico and Chile. Roque
Dalton made a breaking poetry, trizas some elements that previous poets used;
His poetry is an intelligent poetry to question the traditional ways of facing poetry in
El Salvador, although in some poems his language loses validity (in those of his
first era above all), he invades rhetoric, very intellectual joy; Rhetoric is a false
language that gives everything empty, lifeless. Its first poems are verbal buildings
with unusual relationships between the most dissimilar, opposite, opposite
elements; a surreal area enrich its expression; But the abuse of this surrealism
made him fall into the rhetoric that we said at the beginning. In the books published
after "Taberna and other places", he knew how to develop his entire poetic vision
of rupture, of disagreement in all orders and integrate his political experiences with
poetry and literature in general. Because of their political activities in exile several
years, during which the most socialist majority of countries visit.
Some of his works are:
· The window in the face (poetry), 1961.
· The offender's turn (poetry), 1963.
· The sea (poetry), 1964.
· Poems (poetry), 1968.
· Taberna and other places (poetry), Casa de las Américas Award, Havana, Cuba,
1969.
Claudia Lars

His real name was Carmen Brannon Vega. He was born in Armenia in 1899 and
died in San Salvador in 1974.
Claudia Lars belongs to the lineage of the great poets of our America. To that
female lyric (not by feminist, but made by full women) who took Latin American
poetry from its Mojigata prostration, the result of the eightcentist sensibility; They
sang love with great erotic turns, with clean innocence invoked the fertility of their
body, their fertilization, the enjoyment of living, mothers who waited a happy
tomorrow for their children: maternal passion that made them the land that
expected the seed of a new life. These women poets are: Juana de Ibarborou
(Uruguaya), Alfonsina Storni (Argentina), Delmira Agustini (Uruguayan) and the
Chilean Gabriela Mistral (Nobel Prize for Literature, 1945). Gabriela in Chile, like
Claudia in our country, have not had - among women - who accompany them fully
in the search for the poetic spirit of our people, the essentials of these countries.
They have no continuity in other female voices. Claudia Lars writes a transparent
poetry, without being deep; Sometimes its formal mastery wins and forgets its
message, but in each poem of yours it is a poet manifesting experiences, opening
unpublished paths for our sensitivity, communicating a state of grace never before
it or later found in poetry written by women in El Salvador.
Some of his works are:
· Stars in El Pozo, (1934).
· Romances of North and South, (1946).
· Where the steps arrive, (1953).
· Fable of a truth, (1959).
· Childhood land, (1959).
or cross day
· Presence in time, (1960).