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Daniel Laínez

Died in 1959

Daniel Laínez was born on 10 April 1908 in Tegucigalpa, according to most sources; another places his birth in 1910. He contributed to the reviews Tegucigalpa and Surco, published poetry collections, stories and a novel, and also wrote for the stage. Counted among the writers of the generation of 1935, he draws on Honduran speech and on the popular figures of his country, in a traditional, costumbrista style. He received the Ramón Rosa national prize for literature in 1956 and died in Tegucigalpa in 1959.

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