Claudia Lars

EL SALVADOR

Claudia Lars was born in Armenia, El Salvador in 1899 as Margarita del Carmen Brannon Vega. She traveled to the United States where she worked as a Spanish teacher at the Berlitz School in Brooklyn. Her first book of poems, “Triste Mirajes,” (“Sad Mirage”) was published without her consent by General Juan Jose Cañas. Claudia traveled to the United States a second time where she worked packing peaches, translating stories for Walt Disney, and contributed to an anti-fascist newspaper. She was then appointed to work at the El Salvadorian embassy in Guatemala. She later moved to Canada where she worked in the editorial department in the Ministry of Culture and was in charge of the magazine, “Culture.” Claudia wrote 19 books of poetry and a memoir and received international recognition for her work. 

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