Salvador Efrain Salazar Arrue (Salarrue )

Sonsonate, 1899 Salvador Efrain Salazar Arrue is one of the few Salvadoran classical writers. He brims his writings with deeply touched human narration. When he wrote about peasants and suburban characters, he did it with a level of identification that expresses the most coherent vision of his country at the time. Salarrue closed a chapter of Salvadoran literature and broke the ground for a new one through expressive findings in the way of tackling national issues in his works. His pieces, however, not only revel in the local human warmth and tawdriness, but also in the tough reality. The nitty-gritty fact about this writer is his vision of a harmonious place in which men –despite their impurities and clumsiness- are creatures that can get over to troubles and live in a fairer world. Salarrue was also a great painter.