Julio Escoto

Julio Escoto was born on 28 February 1944 in San Pedro Sula. A teacher of literature in 1964, he then studied at the University of Florida, then in Costa Rica, where from 1977 to 1980 he directed the Central American university press. Back in Honduras in 1986, he taught literature at the national university, directed a literary journal and a publishing centre in his native city, and wrote a newspaper column. He received the Ramón Rosa national literature prize in 1975 and in 1987 a Spanish short-story prize, in Alicante.

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• NovelEl árbol de los pañuelosJulio Escoto · 1972not translated into EnglishLiterature