Salarrué

Luís Salvador Efraín Salazar Arrué also Salarrué, ( born October 22, 1899 in Sonsonate, † November 27, 1975 in Los Planes de Renderos San Salvador ) was a Salvadoran writer and painter.

Life

His parents were María Teresa Arrué and Joaquín Salazar Angulo. Around 1915, he attended a school run by Spiro Rossolino sign with his cousin, the caricaturist Toño Salazar. In 1916 he was awarded by the Government Carlos Meléndez a scholarship. Salazar went to the Danville School in Virginia. From 1916 to 1919 Salazar studied at the Corcoran College of Art and Design in Washington, DC and then returned to El Salvador. In 1919 he organized the Hisada 's gallery his first painting exhibition. In 1919 he was a representative of the Cruz Roja de El Salvador in San Marcos.

In 1922 he married the painter salvadoreñische Zelie Lardé y Arthes. Her daughters, which also visual artists were are: María Teresa ( Maya ), Olga Teresa and Aída Estela. 1926 Salazar joined the Asociación de Periodistas de El Salvador in. From 1928 to 1935 he headed the editorial board of the newspaper Patria by Alberto Masferrer and Alberto Guerra Trigueros ( 1898-1950 ), the daily magazine Vivir. To fill the pages published Salazar his Cuentos de Cipotes, which were published in 1961 by Italo López Vallecillos in book form.

La Casa del Escritor

In 2003, his house was purchased and restored by the Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes de El Salvador ( CONCULTURA ). Which today, La Casa del Escritor houses a project for young writers.

Publications

  • El Cristo Negro, novel, 1926
  • El señor de La Burbuja, novel 1927
  • O'Yarkandal, narrative, 1929
  • Remontando el Uluán, narrative, 1932
  • Cuentos de barro, narrative, 1934
  • El libro desnudo, narrative, 1936
  • Eso y más, story, 1940,
  • Cuentos de edición parcial Cipotes in 1943 and total output in 1961.
  • Trasmallo story, 1954
  • La espada y otras Narraciones stories, 1960
  • Catleya luna, novel, 1974
  • Mundo nomasito, poetry, 1975

The first editions of Cuentos de Cipotes were illustrated by his wife Zelie Lardé and the following of his daughter Maya. Some editions of the Cuentos de Barro contain spontaneous illustrations by José Mejía Vides.

Secondary literature

  • Maria Tenorio, La alfarería de la cultura nacional Essay, 1999
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