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3 unusual facts about Honduran literature


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.

In the young generation of poets, major voices include he three most prominent figures of contemporary Honduran literature are novelist and short story writer Roberto Quesada, with his novel Los barcos, poet and editor Amanda Castro, and writer and playwright Javier Abril Espinoza, author of Un ángel atrapado en el huracán and Cuentos para niños y niñas.

Juan Pablo Suazo Euceda and Javier Abril Espinoza represent a new wave of 21st century Honduras writers.



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