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unusual facts about Óscar Acosta


Honduran literature

The poets Óscar Acosta, Roberto Sosa, Rigoberto Paredes, José Adán Castelar, Alexis Ramírez and José Luis Quesada, together with story writers like Julio Escoto, Eduardo Bähr (El cuento de la guerra), and Ernesto Bondy Reyes ("La mujer fea y el restaurador"), are the writers who opened new literary and generational perspectives in literature beginning 1960s and 1970s and continuing through today.


The Mint Las Vegas

The Mint was made famous (or infamous) as the first night's stay in Hunter S. Thompson and Oscar Acosta's legendary 1971 weekend trip to Las Vegas, immortalized in Thompson's novel Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.


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