Helen Umaña

Helen Umaña was born in 1948 in the department of Ocotepeque, Honduras. Her parents, exiled for political reasons, took her to Guatemala when she was two; she graduated in Spanish language and literature from the University of San Carlos, where she taught, and returned to Honduras in 1981, driven out by political violence. A professor in San Pedro Sula, a poet and critic and a member of the Honduran Academy of the Language, she received the Ramón Rosa National Prize in 1989 and the José Trinidad Reyes Prize in 1998.

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• EssayLiteratura hondureña contemporáneaHelen Umaña · 1986not translated into EnglishLiterature