Claudia Lars was a Salvadoran poet born in 1899 in El Salvador. She was the daughter of an Irish father and Salvadoran mother. She began her education at home and later attended school in El Salvador. Early in her career, a general published one of her poetry booklets without her permission. She then had relationships and married in both El Salvador and the United States, working as a Spanish teacher. She published several poetry collections between 1934 and 1959 under the pseudonym Claudia Lars, winning awards in Guatemala and El Salvador. She worked in cultural roles for the Salvadoran embassy in Guatemala, where she later remarried before her death in 1974.
Claudia Lars was a Salvadoran poet born in 1899 in El Salvador. She was the daughter of an Irish father and Salvadoran mother. She began her education at home and later attended school in El Salvador. Early in her career, a general published one of her poetry booklets without her permission. She then had relationships and married in both El Salvador and the United States, working as a Spanish teacher. She published several poetry collections between 1934 and 1959 under the pseudonym Claudia Lars, winning awards in Guatemala and El Salvador. She worked in cultural roles for the Salvadoran embassy in Guatemala, where she later remarried before her death in 1974.
Claudia Lars was a Salvadoran poet born in 1899 in El Salvador. She was the daughter of an Irish father and Salvadoran mother. She began her education at home and later attended school in El Salvador. Early in her career, a general published one of her poetry booklets without her permission. She then had relationships and married in both El Salvador and the United States, working as a Spanish teacher. She published several poetry collections between 1934 and 1959 under the pseudonym Claudia Lars, winning awards in Guatemala and El Salvador. She worked in cultural roles for the Salvadoran embassy in Guatemala, where she later remarried before her death in 1974.
Claudia Lars, born in Armenia, El Salvador on December 20,
1899 as Margarita del Carmen Brannon Vega, was a Salvadoran poet.[1] She died in San Salvador in 1974. She was the daughter of Peter Patrick Brannon and Carmen Vega Zelayandía.[2]
Early life
Her parents were Peter Patrick Brannon (Irish) and Carmen
Brannon Vega Zelayandía (Salvadoran). During her early years, she was friends with Consu elo Suncín, the future wife of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. She started her education at home, and later studied at the Colegio La Asunción de Santa Ana as a teenager. General Juan José Cañas, who got a booklet of poems written by her, published the book, without Claudia's authorization, under the title of "Triste Mirajes". In 1919, Claudia started a relationship with Nicaraguan poet Salomón de la Selva, but her parents ended the relationship, by sending Claudia to the United States. In the United States Claudia met her first husband: Leroy F. Beers Kuehn. Claudia worked as a Spanish Teacher at the famous Berlitz School in Brooklyn.
Travels and publications
Claudia returned to El Salvador with her husband in 1927, after Leroy was appointed United States consul, the same year she gave birth to her only son Roy Beers Brannon. Claudia became friends with other poets and writers in El Salvador, among those were Salarrué, Alberto Guerra Trigueros, Serafin Quiteño and Alberto Masferrer. In 1933 she began using the pseudonym Claudia Lars. In 1934 her first book was published: "Stars in the Well" At the beginning of the next decade, Claudia Lars won second place in the 1941 Floral Games in Guatemala thanks to her work "Sonnets of Michael". Then came "The Glass House" (Santiago de Chile, 1942); "Romances of North and South (1946), "City under my Voice" *(1947), which was the winner of the events commemorating the fourth centenary of the title of City San Salvador. Claudia was appointed as cultural attaché to the Embassy of El Salvador in Guatemala. She went to Guatemala in 1948, where she met her second husband Carlos Samayoa Chinchilla, who was divorced in 1967. However, before getting married, she endured a hectic life in which she worked packing peaches in the United States, translating stories for Walt Disney and Salvadorans working together to anti-fascist newspapers.
Selected works
Estrellas en el Pozo, (1934).
Cancion Redonda (1934) Romances de Norte y Sur, (1946). Donde Llegan los pasos, (1953). Fábula de una Verdad, (1959).