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3 unusual facts about Eduardo Bähr


Eduardo Bähr

In 1996, along with Mexico's Octavio Paz, Spain's Rafael Alberti, and Nicaragua's Ernesto Cardenal, he was one of 50 intellectuals awarded the Gabriela Mistral Medal by the government of Chile.

He is currently living in Tegucigalpa, where he runs a non-profit editorial service to promote publication among low-income Honduran and Central American artists and students.

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.



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