CLAUDIA LARS BIOGRAPHY

Salvadoran poet, one of the most outstanding

voices of Central American poetry of the 20th
century. Daughter of Peter Patrick Brannon, an
American engineer, and Carmen Vega
Zelayandía from El Salvador, she studied at the
La Asunción school in the city of Santa Ana,
where the young Claudia opted for humanistic
studies. At that time Claudia Lars had a
romantic relationship with the poet Salomón de
la Selva. But in 1919, when they had formalized
their marriage commitment, Claudia's father
decided to break the bond and send his
daughter to the United States, to the house of
relatives living in Pennsylvania.

Settled in the Salvadoran capital, at the end of

1927 their first child, Le Roy Beers Brannon,
was born, who would be the only offspring of
Claudia Lars. Claudia Lars returned to frequent
literary circles, especially the one gathered
around the poet Alberto Guerra Trigueros, made
up of writers such as Alberto Masferrer,
Salarrué and Serafín Quiteño. This work, well
received by critics and readers, paved the way
for the next collection of poems by Claudia Lars,
Canción redonda , which was followed, after a
parenthesis, by La casa de vidrio . In this fertile
period he also published Romances de norte y
sur, Sonnetos y Ciudad bajo mi voz, a book
awarded in the Commemorative Contest for the
IV Centenary of the Title of City of San
Salvador.