Her true name was Carmen Brannon Vega. She was born in Armenia in 1899 and died in San Salvador in 1974. Claudia Lars belongs to the stock of grand poets of America. For this lyric, feminine (though not feminist, but completely woman), poet took Latin American poetry out of its hypocritical prostration, fruit of the 19th century sensibilities, sang songs to love with erotic and stupendous turns, with clean innocence invoked the fertility of her body, her fecundity, the joy of living, mothers that hoped for a happy tomorrow for their children: a maternal passion that converted them through the earth waited for the seed of a new life. Among her contemporary women poets are: Juana de Ibarborou, Alfonsina Storni, Delmira Agustini, and the Chilean Gabriela Mistral (Nobel Prize Laureate in Literature, 1945). Gabriela in Chile, like Claudia in El Salvador, did not have -- among women -- companions with whom to journey fully in the search of the poetic spirit of her peoples, the essential need of these countries. They don't have continuity in other feminine voices. Claudia Lars writes transparent poetry, but allows for profound being; at times her formal mastery overcomes the poetry, and we forget her message, but in each poem of hers we find a poet manifesting life, opening paths before unedited by our sensibilities, comunicating a state of grace never before, nor after, found in the written poetry of the women of El Salvador. Alfonsina Storni was born in April of 1892 in the mountain village of Sala Capriasca. ... Delmira Agustini was born in Uruguay in 1886 and considered one of the greatest female Latin poets of the early 20th century. ... Gabriela Mistral Gabriela Mistral (April 7, 1889 – January 10, 1957) was the pseudonym of Lucila de María del Perpetuo Socorro Godoy Alcayaga, a Chilean poet, educator, diplomat and feminist who was the first Latin American to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, in 1945. ...

Some of her works are:

• Estrellas en el Pozo, (1934).
• Romances de Norte y Sur, (1946).
• Donde Llegan los pasos, (1953).
• Fábula de una Verdad, (1959).
• Tierra de Infancia, (1959).
• Presencia en el Tiempo, (1960).
• Girasol, (1961).
• Sobre el Angel y el Hombre, (1962).
• Del fino Amanecer, (1964).
• Nuestro Pulsante Mundo (apuntes sobre una nueva edad), (1969).
• Poesía Última, (1972).