Alfredo Espino- Notable Biographies

(1900/01/08 - 24/05/1928)

Alfredo Espino
Salvadoran poet

He was born on January 8, 1900 in Ahuachapán. It was the second of eight children of Alfonso Espino poet and educator Enriqueta Najarro.
He studied at the Faculty of law and Sciences social of the University of El Salvador, where he graduated Ph.d. with his thesis aesthetic sociology (1927).
He collaborated in the Lumen and Student Opinion, magazines like the newspaper the press and Journal of el Salvador. Only wrote 96 poems gathered at Sad GOURDS in 1930, divided into six parts: Casucas, Bohío Auras, sweetness, Panoramas and Aromas, Birds of legend and El Alma del Barrio.
With a delicate poetic , presented in a simple, easy-to-grasp style. His poems are exposed El Salvador, lush landscape.
Alfredo Espino died in San Salvador, El Salvador, on May 24, 1928 due to an alcohol crisis. He was buried in San Salvador's General Cemetery, his remains rest in the gardens of remembrance, in the place of the crypt of the poets.