Miguel Ángel Espino (17 December 1902 – 1 October 1967) was a

Salvadoran Salvadorans (Spanish: ''Salvadoreños''), also known as Salvadorians (alternate spelling: Salvadoreans), are citizens of El Salvador, a country in Central America. Most Salvadorans live in El Salvador, although there is also a significant Salvado ...

writer, journalist and lawyer. Escritor Miguel Angel Espino y al entonces Cadete Carlos Humberto Romero - 1947

Life

Born into a literary family, Espino was the younger brother of the lyric poet

Alfredo Espino Alfredo Espino (1900—August 1928) was a poet from El Salvador. Born in Ahuachapán, his only book is ''Jícaras Tristes'' (Sad Vessels), a collection of 96 poems. It is one of the most published books of poetry in El Salvador. Espino died ...

. His grandfather was Don Antonio Najarro (1850-1890), also a published poet. He married María Luisa Nieto. During the 1920s, he worked as a journalist for several newspapers, including

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. He joined the Faculty of Law and Social Sciences at the

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in 1921. In 1927 he traveled to

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as part of a diplomatic delegation, and while there completed his

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at the

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in 1928. A stroke in 1951 ended his literary career. He spent the last few years of his life in Mexico, where he died.

Published works

* ''Mitología de Cuscatlán'' (eng. ''Cuscatlán mythology'') (1919), a collection of Indian legends. * ''Como Cantan Allá'' (eng. ''How to Sing Back'') (1926), a collection of short stories * ''Trenes'' (eng. ''Trains'') (1940), a novel. * ''Hombres Contra la Muerte'' (eng. ''Men Against Death'') (1940), a novel set in Belize, published in Guatemala in 1942. Both novels were translated into French and English, and in 1948 he was awarded a literary prize by the El Salvadoran government for ''Men Against Death''.

References

Barrilettes perdidos por: Miguel Angel Espino
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(Spanish) Salvadoran male writers 1902 births 1967 deaths {{ElSalvador-writer-stub