Óscar Acosta

Óscar Acosta was born on 14 April 1933 in Tegucigalpa. A law student, he founded with others the University Literary Circle, then created publishing houses and reviews and in the 1960s directed the Editorial Universitaria. A career diplomat, he represented his country in Peru, Spain, Italy and at the Vatican. A member of the Honduran Academy of the Language, he received the Central American Rubén Darío poetry prize in Nicaragua in 1960, and in 1979 the Rafael Heliodoro Valle essay prize of the national university. He died in 2014.

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• Short storiesEl arcaÓscar Acosta · 1956not translated into EnglishLiterature