Salarrué

Salvador Efraín Salazar Arrué, known universally by his pen name Salarrué, was born in Sonsonate on October 22, 1899. After studying painting at the Corcoran School of Art in Washington, D.C., Salarrué returned to El Salvador to become the foremost voice of modern cultural identity.

In 1933, he published his masterpiece Cuentos de barro, portraying rural campesinos with exquisite tenderness, gentle humor, and authentic phonetic dialect. Also authoring mystical philosophical treatises such as O-Yarkandal and painting surreal landscapes, he lived simply in his cottage at Los Planes de Renderos until his death in 1975.