Claribel alegria biography of martin

Claribel Alegría (b. 1924), Salvadoran writer. An outstanding poet, Alegría pioneered feminism as well as the modernization of the Central American novel with her masterpiece, Cenizas de Izalco (Ashes of Izalco, 1965).

Her middle-period works have been recognized for their testimonial writing about Salvadoran women. After the death of her husband, she has dedicated considerable time to writing poetry.

Although she was born in Nicaragua, Alegría was taken to El Salvador at age one.

Claribel alegria biography of martin

She was only seven when the matanza (massacre) of 1932—in which dictator Maximiliano Hernández Martínez assassinated 30,000 peasants in the space of a month—took place. She swore that one day she would write down everything she had witnessed.

She studied at George Washington University in Washington, D.C., during the late 1940s and became one of the first Central American women to obtain a university degree. While in Washington she married Darwin Flakoll, with whom she wr