Roque Dalton

Roque Dalton

Born in San Salvador, a month of May, in an era in which left his country had suffered unprecedented repression and resulted in thousands of shot. The facts were reflected in the documentary novel Miguel Marmol.

Educated in the Jesuit, Catholic confessed earnest until the age of 22 he joined the Salvadoran Communist Party. His literary activity parallels the revolutionary militancy and recognition of their worth as a writer in turn coincides with the first incarceration.

University Literary Circle member with Otto René Castillo, Manlio Argueta, Roberto Armijo and Alfonso Quijada, among others, received a three-time American Poetry Prize and the Prize of the Americas House Tavern and other locations, considered his best book poems.

Founder of the People's Revolutionary Army (ERP) was assassinated in 1975 by partners of the organization.

Monseñor Romero

Oscar Arnulfo Romero in Ciudad Barrios was born in 1917, studied theology at the Gregorian University in Rome where he was ordained priest in 1942.

In 1943 he began his pastoral work, first as pastor then as director of the diocesan seminary of San Salvador. Appointed bishop in 1967, Bishop nominated in 1970 came "auxiliary" of the Archbishop of San Salvador and the February 22, 1977 assumed the "possessed" by the Archdiocese.

The 1978 23 English Parliament as a candidate proposed as Nobel Peace Prize 1979.

In 1980 he was awarded the Doctorate "Honoris Causa" from the University of Leuven in Belgium.

He made a dramatic appeal to the President of the United States of America by a letter in which he asked "severely" to suspend military aid to the country, which turned into a bloody crackdown on people.

In the Homily of "Palm Sunday" 1980, a cathedral, Monsignor Romero pronounced a homily of fire had called on soldiers to refuse to obey an order to kill them imponiese defenseless peasants brothers ...

The next day, at 18:30, he was assassinated by a sniper that until today ideologist and implementers have gone unpunished.

Alfredo Espino

Edgardo Najarro Alfredo Espino, better known as Alfredo Espino, was an Salvadoran poet. Born in the Department Abroad, western El Salvador, in the year of 1900. Son of Henrietta Najarro, who was a teacher by vocation, and Alfonso Espino, poet, grew up in a home that breathed poetry and love of art, his brother Miguel Angel Espino also grew to become pen artist but in the field of prose .

He entered the University of El Salvador in 1920, joining the Court during their stay in the University City, was part of many activities within it including demonstrations by students to avoid the rising prices of tickets tram.

The last years of his life became very adverse parent's refusal to consent to her marriage with some young people led him to constant and loving emotional imbalances. To mitigate, gave bohemian long hours in bars and brothels in the Salvadoran capital.

It was during one of these crises alcoholic that he ended his life, on the morning of May 24, 1928 in the city of San Salvador.

Buried in the cemetery first capital-where style speeches were made by the doctor and writer Julio Enrique Avila and then graduates Manuel F. Vasquez-Rafael Chavarria and, in recent years Espino remains were moved to the crypt of the Poets, in a private cemetery Memorial Gardens, south of the city of San Salvador.

His only book is Jícaras Sad, collection of 96 poems, published posthumously by several friends and under the approval of Alberto Masferrer, is one of the books published in the country, its author is of the most read and commented but not studied or analyzed in its expression.

It has a delicate poetic, sought to capture his homeland with a lyrical, he presented with a simple, easy to grasp, therefore, no formal complications; wrote sonnets, and free verse romances.

Claudia Lars

Claudia Lars, was born in Armenia, Sonsonate, El Salvador, on December 20, 1989. Salvadoran writer is has reached a higher national recognition for its high quality and pure lyricism. Published in American Repertory, directed by those years by the Costa Rican writer Joaquín García Monge and Zig-zag, Chile. It has always been placed on a par with Gabriela Mistral, who remained close friends, and Joan of Ibarborou. He was for many years director of the Journal of the Ministry of Education Culture. He received several awards, including include: the Fourth Centenary of the City of San Salvador, National Competition of Culture and the Poetic of Quetzaltenango.

Work published: Stars in the well, 1934 Round Song, 1937, The Glass House, 1942 North and South

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