Honduran Literature

Honduran literature is literature originating from Honduras. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, famous Honduran literature was written by FroylánTurcios and the modernist poet Juan Ramón Molina. LucilaGamero de Medina is the most important Honduran romantic novelist. Ramón Amaya Amador's Green Prison, written in the 1940s, is the novel that marks the beginning of Honduran social realism. The poets Óscar Acosta, Roberto Sosa, Rigoberto Paredes, José AdánCastelar, 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 mujerfea y el restaurador"), are the writers who opened new literary and generational perspectives in literature beginning 1960s and 1970s and continuing through today.

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

Helen Umaña is one of the few Honduran writers who has focused her efforts on the literary essay and literary criticism. Historian Leticia de Oyuela has writtenessayson painting and has published several books on the history of Honduras.

In present-day Honduran literature, major poets include Rebeca Becerra, Rubén Izaguirre, and César Indiano; the latter also writes short stories and novels. In theyounggeneration of poets, majorvoicesinclude he threemostprominent 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. Armando Garcia, short story writer Nery Alexis Gaitán, and poet José González are otherimportant Honduran writers.

Honduras literature has poets, novelists and storytellers of remarkable quality in different periods of the history of this Central American country.

In the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century, more noteworthy writers like FroylánTurcios and the modernist poet, Juan Ramon Molina. LucilaGamero (1873-1964) is the most important novelist of romanticism in Honduras. While green Imprisonment Ramón Amaya Amador, is the novel par excellence with which the literature of social realism in the country was inaugurated. Poets Oscar Acosta, Roberto Sosa, Rigoberto Paredes, Jose Adan Castelar, Alexis Ramirez and Jose Luis Quesada, along with narrators as Julio Escoto, Eduardo Bähr - story book, The Tale of the war - and Ernesto Bondy Reyes - "Women ugly and restorer "- among others and others are opening new writers -literaria and generational perspectives on how to make the national literary and face made from the 60s, 70s and today. You can not ignore the renowned writers Oscar Amaya with her latest tale of prícipes The Prodigy; Galel Cardenas with his latest novel water wall; Denia novelist Nelson Moncada, an outstanding realistic style with an innovative magical touch in his novel "The Return of Wetback," based on testimony awarded in Australia; in this novel, first in Honduran literature, use of some terms of Spanglish is made.

Helen Umaña is one of the few Honduran writers who focused his literary work to the essay and literary criticism, apart from the historian Leticia Oyuela, who has written essays on painting and has published several books on the history of Honduras.

In the Honduran literature of this one you can speak of writers who venture both poetry

and narrative, Marta Susana Prieto (Melody of Silence) story (Animalario) historical novel (Memory of Shadows) it deserves latest in a Distinction House of the Americas in Cuba. Other authors César Lazo, Glenn Lardizábal Navarro (Tempting emptiness and VO) Rivera Felipe Burgos, Efrain Lopez Nieto, Jorge Miralda, Elisa Logan, Rebecca Becerra, Rubén Izaguirre, Mario Berrios, Alberto Destephen Deborah Ramos, Romero AleydaDoritaZapataSoledadAltamirano, Samuel Trigueros, Israel Serrano, Fabricio Estrada, Heber Sorto, Salvador Madrid, David Fortin, Melissa Merlo, Oscar Sierra, Gustavo Campos, Giovanni Rodriguez AndinoMurvin Jimenez, OtonielNataren, among others, and who in addition to his individual production include important Honduran and foreign anthologies
Roberto Quesada, with his novel, Boats, novelist and short story writer, is one of the three most outstanding figures of the current Honduran literature, together with the two writers who, like him, make their way into the US and Europe respectively, as the poet and editor Amanda Castro and the writer and playwright Javier Abril Espinoza, author of An Angel caught in the hurricane and stories for children. The narrator Nery Alexis Gaitan and the poet José González, of different generations, are other worthy of consideration in the same way that does not go unnoticed, for its fine satirical irony, olanchitense writer Armando Garcia Honduran writers. We also have to Juan Ramon Saraviawas born in Santa Barbara, Honduras. 1951. Poet playwright, editor, escritor.Ha published the following books: Poetry: Landscapes Bible (Return), 1985; Cardinal Points, 1988; Only one woman, 1990; Alta is the night, 1992; Among all women, 1996. Theatre: riddance, blue blood; The circle on Sunday; We were burning and sweet. He has received the following awards: House, Cuba (1988) Prize of the Americas shared with four Latin American poets and published by Editions House of the Americas, Havana, 1988, in the Prix Collection, under the title of Five Cardinal Points, June 1989.

 In September 2006, JH Bográn published through Chippewa Publishing LLC, a book written entirely in English titled Treasure Hunt. This novel has the distinction of being the first book published in electronic format (e-book) by a Honduran author. In 2007 he published his first novel in Spanish titled Heir of Evil (LetraNegraEditores, Guatemala).