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List Of Salvadorans
This is a list of notable people born in El Salvador or of Salvadoran descent (also see Salvadoran American). Arts * Consuelo de Saint Exupéry, painter, sculptor, and author; wife of Antoine de Saint Exupéry *Fernando Llort, painter and sculptor *Noe Canjura, painter *Nicolas F. Shi, painter * Patricia Chica, filmmaker *Ana Maria de Martinez, artist * Toño Salazar, caricaturist * Retna, graffiti artist * Giovanni Gil, painter, engraver and watercolorist * Rubén Martínez Bulnes, sculptor, architect Scholars, authors and educators * Alberto Masferrer, intellectual * Alfredo Betancourt, educator, philosopher *Ana Sol Gutiérrez, educator *Claribel Alegría, writer * Claudia Lars, poet * René Núñez Suárez, engineer *Ignacio Martín-Baró, social psychologist and priest *José Matías Delgado, writer, father of the Salvadoran fatherland * Juan José Cañas, writer, the national anthem *Manlio Argueta, novelist * Marcos Villatoro, author * Martin Guardado, applied lingu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
El Salvador
El Salvador (; , meaning " The Saviour"), officially the Republic of El Salvador ( es, República de El Salvador), is a country in Central America. It is bordered on the northeast by Honduras, on the northwest by Guatemala, and on the south by the Pacific Ocean. El Salvador's capital and largest city is San Salvador. The country's population in 2022 is estimated to be 6.5 million. Among the Mesoamerican nations that historically controlled the region are the Lenca (after 600 AD), the Mayans, and then the Cuzcatlecs. Archaeological monuments also suggest an early Olmec presence around the first millennium BC. In the beginning of the 16th century, the Spanish Empire conquered the Central American territory, incorporating it into the Viceroyalty of New Spain ruled from Mexico City. However the Viceroyalty of Mexico had little to no influence in the daily affairs of the isthmus, which was colonized in 1524. In 1609, the area was declared the Captaincy General of Guatemala ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rubén Martínez Bulnes
Rubén Martínez Bulnes (born July 7, 1929) is a Salvadoran architect and sculptor. He is considered the author of the country's most prolific sculptural art. Early life His interest in art began in his infancy. As a young person he wanted to become an architect, but he ended up studying civil engineering like his father.El FaroPlática con Rubén Martínez/ref> His career as a sculptor began when he collected metallic remains from the place where he studied. He received his first instruction from welders. Career The predominant material in his creations are metals and forged iron,MARTERubén Martínez/ref> which are sculpted in a range of abstract forms. Important pieces of the Salvadoran nation were made by him, among them the Monument of the Constitution (), the Monument of Peace (), and the sculptures of José Simeón Cañas, exhibited in the national Museum of art, and José Matías Delgado, located in the parque San José in San Salvador. He has worked in gardening, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matilde Elena López
Matilde Elena López (20 February 1919 – 11 March 2010) was a Salvadoran poet, essayist, playwright and literary critic. Her most important works include “Masferrer, alto pensador de Centro América”, “Cartas a Grosa” and “La balada de Anastasio Aquino”. During the 1940s she was part of the League of Anti-Fascist Writers, a group of young writers with leftist ideas. In April 1944, she participated in the popular movement that sought to overthrow the government of dictator Maximiliano Hernández Martínez. She studied at the University of San Carlos de Guatemala and the Universidad Central del Ecuador, and at from latter University she received a doctorate degree in philosophy. In 1958 she joined the University of El Salvador where she worked as professor, director of the Department of Arts and Vice Dean of the Faculty of Humanities. She has also taught at the Universidad Centroamericana "Jose Simeon Cañas". Her 1978 play, ''The Ballad of Anastasio Aquino'' is dedi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Martin Guardado
Martin Guardado (born 1962) is a Salvadorian-born Canadian sociolinguist. He is currently a professor of sociocultural linguistics and applied linguistics at the University of Alberta. His research focuses on heritage language socialization and teaching English as a second language. He is noted for his work on heritage language socialization and for recommending that heritage languages need to be studied multidimensionally as well as from macro and micro perspectives. His recent and current research respectively examines the experiences of Japanese-Canadian mothers in mixed language families in Montreal and the characteristics of mixed language parents across a number of linguistic groups in Alberta. Career Guardado received his Master of Education in Teaching English as a second language in 2001 and his Doctor of Philosophy in Modern language education in 2008 from the University of British Columbia. He taught content-based English, applied linguistics, and teacher education ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marcos Villatoro
Marcos McPeek Villatoro is a writer from the United States. He is the author of six novels, two collections of poetry and a memoir, and the producer/director of the documentary "Tamale Road: A Memoir from El Salvador." He has written essays for National Public Radio and PBS. He resides in Los Angeles. Biography McPeek Villatoro was born on February 20, 1962 in San Francisco, California. His mother is from El Salvador, his father from the Appalachian Mountains of east Tennessee. He lived the first three years of his life in the Mission District of San Francisco, until his family moved to his father's hometown of Rogersville, Tennessee, where he spent most of his life until 1980. In August of that year he moved to Davenport, Iowa, where he attended St. Ambrose University as a seminarian for the Roman Catholic Church. In January 1982 he met his future wife, Michelle Menster (a local Iowan). He left the seminary in May of that year. He and Menster married in May 1984. After gradua ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Manlio Argueta
Manlio Argueta (born 24 November 1935) is a Salvadoran writer, critic, and novelist. Although he is primarily a poet, he is best known in the English speaking world for his novel ''One Day of Life''.Biography of Manlio Argueta Interview to Manlio Argueta Life He was born in San Miguel, El Salvador on November 24, 1935. Argueta has stated that his exposure to “poetic sounds” began during his childhood and that his foundation in poetry stemm ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Juan José Cañas
Juan José Cañas Pérez (9 June 1826 – 19 January 1918) is known for possibly having written the ''Himno Nacional De El Salvador'' ( national hymn of El Salvador) along with Italian-born composer Juan Aberle. Cañas studied medicine at universities in Nicaragua and Guatemala before moving to El Salvador briefly. In 1848, he moved to San Francisco to make use of his medical degree. Later in life, Cañas served as El Salvador's diplomatic ambassador to Chile Chile, officially the Republic of Chile, is a country in the western part of South America. It is the southernmost country in the world, and the closest to Antarctica, occupying a long and narrow strip of land between the Andes to the eas .... His poetry can be found at the Central American Poetic Gallery in the Salvadoran Garland. Bibliography * 1826 births 1918 deaths Salvadoran poets Salvadoran male writers Male poets Salvadoran diplomats National anthem writers University of El Salvador alu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
José Matías Delgado
José Matías Delgado y de León (24 February 1767 – 12 November 1832) was a Salvadoran priest and doctor known as ''El Padre de la Patria Salvadoreña'' (The Father of the Salvadoran Fatherland). He was a prominent leader in the independence movement of El Salvador from the Spanish Empire. From 28 November 1821 to 9 February 1823, he served as the Political Chief of San Salvador and later served as the President of the Constituent Assembly of the United Provinces of Central America from 24 June 1823 to 1 July 1823. Early years José Matías Delgado y de León was born on 24 February 1767 in San Salvador, which was at the time a part of the Spanish Empire administered by the Greater Mayorship of San Salvador ( es). His father was Pedro Delgado y Matamoros, a Panamanian who later served as "Ordinary Mayor of First Vote and Alderman and Royal Ensign" of San Salvador in 1797, his mother was Mariana de León Mexía, a Guatemalan, and he had six siblings: Manuel, Miguel, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ignacio Martín-Baró
Ignacio Martín-Baró (November 7, 1942 in Valladolid, Castilla y Leon, Spain – November 16, 1989 in San Salvador, El Salvador) was a scholar, social psychologist, philosopher and Jesuit priest. He was one of the victims of the 1989 murders of Jesuits in El Salvador. Academic career Martín-Baró entered the novitiate of the Society of Jesus in Orduña, Spain, on September 28, 1959. Shortly after, he was transferred to the novitiate of Villagarcía and then sent to Central America, where he completed his second year in the novitiate of the Society of Jesus. At the end of September 1961, he began his studies in classical humanities at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador in Quito. On graduating, he travelled to Bogotá, where he studied philosophy at the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, run by the Jesuits. In 1964 he received his bachelor's degree in philosophy and in 1965 his licentiate (licenciatura) in philosophy and literature. In 1966 he returne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
René Núñez Suárez
René Núñez Suárez (born 1945–46) is a Salvadoran engineer who created the "turbococina" (turbo-cooker), a type of kitchen with low energy consumption that aims to reduce fuelwood consumption by around 95%. Invention In the mid-1990s, Francisco Serrano persuaded Núñez to write a chapter about El Salvador's energy resources in the Baccalaureate book ''Historia natural y ecología de El Salvador (''Natural History and Ecology of El Salvador). When he finished writing the chapter, Núñez realized that "firewood was the most important energy resource in the country". After doing several investigations, Núñez concluded no one had treated the problem of firewood consumption, and incorporated his findings to create an appliance that was simple, economic, and minimized the consumption of firewood. He completed it in 1997 and called it the turbococina. The turbococina consists of a stainless steel cylinder that has ten air injectors, two electric fans, and a steel plate tha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Claudia Lars
Claudia Lars, born in Armenia, El Salvador on December 20, 1899 as Margarita del Carmen Brannon Vega, was a Salvadoran poet. She died in San Salvador in 1974. She was the daughter of Peter Patrick Brannon and Carmen Vega Zelayandía.Plumlee, A. (1990). Claudia Lars (1899-1974) El Salvador. In D. Marting (Ed.), Spanish American Women Writers: A Bio-bibliographical Source Book. (pp. 282-291). Greenwood Press. Early life Her parents were Peter Patrick Brannon (Irish) and Carmen Brannon Vega Zelayandía (Salvadoran). During her early years, she was friends with Consuelo Suncín, the future wife of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Antoine Marie Jean-Baptiste Roger, comte de Saint-Exupéry, simply known as Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (, , ; 29 June 1900 – 31 July 1944), was a French writer, poet, aristocrat, journalist and pioneering aviator. He became a laureate of s .... She started her education at home, and later studied at the Colegio La Asunción de Santa Ana as a teenager. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Claribel Alegría
Clara Isabel Alegría Vides (May 12, 1924 – January 25, 2018), also known by her pseudonym Claribel Alegría, was a Nicaraguan-Salvadoran poet, essayist, novelist, and journalist who was a major voice in the literature of contemporary Central America. She was awarded the 2006 Neustadt International Prize for Literature. Biography Alegría was born in Estelí, Nicaragua, to a Nicaraguan father, Daniel Alegría, and a Salvadoran mother, Ana María Vides. Her cousin was activist Leonel Gómez Vides. When Claribel was nine months old, her father was sent into exile for protesting human rights violations occurring during the United States occupation of Nicaragua; as a result, Claribel grew up in Santa Ana, a city in western El Salvador, where her mother came from. Claribel Alegría considered herself to be Nicaraguan-Salvadorean. Although she was too young to read or write, she began composing poetry at the age of six and dictated them to her mother, who would write them down. Al ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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