Matilde Elena López facts for kids
Matilde Elena López (born February 20, 1919 – died March 11, 2010) was a famous writer from El Salvador. She was a poet (someone who writes poems), an essayist (someone who writes short articles on a topic), a playwright (someone who writes plays for the theater), and a literary critic (someone who reviews books). Some of her most well-known works are “Masferrer, alto pensador de Centro América”, “Cartas a Grosa”, and “La balada de Anastasio Aquino”.
During the 1940s, Matilde Elena López joined a group of young writers called the League of Anti-Fascist Writers. These writers had ideas that supported fairness and equality for everyone. In April 1944, she took part in a big movement that wanted to change the government led by a leader named Maximiliano Hernández Martínez.
She studied at two universities: the University of San Carlos de Guatemala and the Universidad Central del Ecuador. At the university in Ecuador, she earned a special degree called a doctorate in philosophy.
In 1958, she started working at the University of El Salvador. There, she was a professor, led the Department of Arts, and was a vice-dean in the humanities department. She also taught at another university called Universidad Centroamericana "Jose Simeon Cañas". Her play from 1978, The Ballad of Anastasio Aquino, tells the story of an important Indigenous leader from El Salvador named Anastasio Aquino.
From 1997 until she passed away, she was a member of the Academia Salvadoreña de la Lengua. This is a special group that works to protect and promote the Spanish language in El Salvador.
Important Books and Plays
Matilde Elena López wrote many different kinds of books and plays. Here are some of her notable works:
- Masferrer, alto pensador de Centroamérica (an essay, 1954)
- Interpretación social del arte (an essay about art, 1965)
- Dante, poeta y ciudadano del futuro (an essay, 1965)
- Estudio-prólogo a las Obras escogidas de Alberto Masferrer (a study, 1971)
- Estudio-prólogo a las Obras escogidas de Claudia Lars (a study, 1973)
- Estudios sobre poesía (essays about poetry, 1973)
- La balada de Anastasio Aquino (a play, 1978)
- Los sollozos oscuros (poetry, 1982)
- El verbo amar (poetry, 1997)
- Ensayos literarios (essays, 1998)
See also
In Spanish: Matilde Elena López para niños
