Committed Generation

Among them are Otto René Castillo and Miguel Ángel Asturias from Guatemala, Guillermo Calderón Puig from Honduras, Rigoberto López Pérez from Nicaragua, Manuel Mejía Vallejo from Colombia and Darío Cossier from Argentina, among others.

It had two stages: the first, with the founding nucleus, made up of López Vallecillos himself, Irma Lanzas, Waldo Chávez Velasco, Álvaro Menen Desleal, Eugenio Martínez Orantes and others.

Armijo, Cea, Argueta, Canales, and the poet Alfonso Quijada Urías directed, during the 1960s until 1979, the cultural magazine entitled La Pájara Pinta.

The Committed Generation influenced subsequent literary promotions, both for its desire to delve into Salvadoran reality, and for its search for aesthetic renewal, which had the most heterogeneous concretions: from science fiction and the theater of the absurd by Álvaro Menéndez Leal, going through the poetic renewal of Roque Dalton,[4][5] to the indigenism and popular tone of José Roberto Cea.

Some authors include within this Generation the painter Camilo Minero and the writers Alfonso Quijada Urías and Ricardo Castrorrivas.

Salvadoran poet Roque Dalton fifth from right to left with intellectuals from the Committed Generation (University Literary Circle). San Salvador, 1961
Salvadoran poet Roque Dalton fifth from right to left with intellectuals from the Committed Generation (University Literary Circle). San Salvador, 1961