Miguel Ángel Espino

Miguel Ángel Espino (17 December 1902 – 1 October 1967) was a Salvadoran writer, journalist and lawyer.

His grandfather was Don Antonio Najarro (1850–1890), also a published poet.

During the 1920s, he worked as a journalist for several newspapers, including La Prensa Gráfica.

He joined the Faculty of Law and Social Sciences at the University of El Salvador in 1921.

Both novels were translated into French and English, and in 1948 he was awarded a literary prize by the El Salvadoran government for Men Against Death.