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NarrativeTangweera: Life and Adventures among Gentle SavagesCharles Napier Bell · 1899A childhood among the Miskitos, told in the evening of his life by a Scot who became an engineer.Literature
NovelBlanca OlmedoLucila Gamero de Medina · 1908not translated into EnglishA love story turned into an indictment of the clergy and the judicial apparatus, in Honduras at the beginning of the twentieth century.Literature
PoetryTierras, mares y cielosJuan Ramón Molina · 1911not translated into EnglishPoems and prose by a Honduran modernist, scattered in the press and gathered after his death.Literature
Short storiesProsas nuevasFroylán Turcios · 1914not translated into EnglishDecadent tales of the femme fatale, published in 1914 and drawn from their author's travels.Literature
NovelEl tuncoArturo Mejía Nieto · 1932not translated into EnglishThe figure of a revolutionary leader of Honduras, seen from Argentina by a diplomat of that country.Literature
NovelLa heredadMarcos Carías Reyes · 1934not translated into EnglishA novel of the thirties, written under the dictatorship by a man of the regime, in which the opposition between civilisation and barbarism takes on proper names.Literature
Short storiesSombraArturo Martínez Galindo · 1940not translated into EnglishStories published in the very year their author was killed, under the dictatorship of Tiburcio Carías Andino.Literature
NovelPrisión verdeRamón Amaya Amador · 1945not translated into EnglishThe banana enclave told from the inside, by a former day labourer.Literature
Short storiesHumusVíctor Cáceres Lara · 1952not translated into EnglishCriollista stories from Honduras, published in the early fifties.Literature
PoetryLaurel de AnáhuacJacobo Cárcamo · 1954not translated into EnglishA song to Mexico, written in exile by a Honduran poet in the mid-fifties.Literature
PoetryAl calor del fogónDaniel Laínez · 1955not translated into EnglishRegional poems published in 1955, drawing on the speech and popular figures of Honduras.Literature
Short storiesEl arcaÓscar Acosta · 1956not translated into EnglishEighteen short stories that, in the mid-fifties, turn Honduran prose away from the depiction of rural customs.Literature
PoetryLa ruta fulgurantePompeyo del Valle · 1956not translated into EnglishA first collection of hope and struggle, published under a pseudonym in the mid-fifties.Literature
PoetryCreciendo con la hierbaClementina Suárez · 1957not translated into EnglishA long poem of love and solidarity, published in El Salvador in 1957.Literature
Short storiesSendas en el abismoMimí Díaz Lozano · 1959not translated into EnglishStories of the city and its distress, published in 1959 by a young Honduran woman, then forgotten for forty years.Literature
EssayHistoria de las ideas contemporáneas en Centro-AméricaRafael Heliodoro Valle · 1960not translated into EnglishThe political and social thought of six Central American countries, traced in a book published a year after its author's death.Literature
CinemaMi amigo ÁngelSami Kafati · 1962The first fiction film shot in Honduras by a filmmaker from the country, a neorealist medium-length film about the poor childhood of the capital.Cinema
Short storiesEl rey del tangoEliseo Pérez Cadalso · 1964not translated into EnglishStories from the sixties, between the peasant vein and freer forms, haunted by the memory of a tango singer.Literature
PoetryLos pobresRoberto Sosa · 1969not translated into EnglishA slim collection on the poor of Honduras, awarded a prize in Spain in the late sixties.Literature
Short storiesEl cuento de la guerraEduardo Bähr · 1971not translated into EnglishThe short war of 1969 between two neighbouring countries, told by a Honduran writer two years after the fighting.Literature
NovelEl árbol de los pañuelosJulio Escoto · 1972not translated into EnglishA novel of madness and vengeance in a nineteenth-century village, where the Indian past surfaces beneath Christian rites.Literature
TheatreLos diezmos de OlanchoMedardo Mejía · 1976not translated into EnglishA trilogy about the revolts against tithes in Olancho, written by a Marxist historian in the sixties.Literature
PoetryLas cosas por su nombreRigoberto Paredes · 1978not translated into EnglishIronic and irreverent poems from the late seventies, which call things by their name.Literature
NovelUna función con móbiles y tentetiesosMarcos Carías Zapata · 1980not translated into EnglishThe fragmented novel of a Central American capital, from the end of the sixties to the threshold of the eighties.Literature
Short storiesSubida al cielo y otros cuentosRoberto Castillo · 1980not translated into EnglishA village on the march to paradise, overtaken by soldiers: Roberto Castillo's first short stories.Literature
PoetryCuaderno de testimoniosJosé Luis Quesada · 1981not translated into EnglishPoems from the early eighties, by a voice of the Honduran avant-garde.Literature
EssayLiteratura hondureña contemporáneaHelen Umaña · 1986not translated into EnglishThe Honduran literature of her time read writer by writer, by a critic who has devoted her life to the study of her country's letters.Literature
NovelThe ShipsLos barcosRoberto Quesada · 1988A young pineapple picker who dreams of writing, under the rule of an American fruit company: Roberto Quesada's first novel.Literature
PoetryPoema estacionalJosé Adán Castelar · 1989not translated into EnglishA poetry of landscape, written in the mid-sixties by a twenty-four-year-old poet.Literature
PoetryEl quinto silencioAlfonso Guillén Zelaya · 1994not translated into EnglishThe only surviving verses of an exiled journalist, collected nearly half a century after his death.Literature
CinemaSpirit of My MotherEl espíritu de mi mamáAli Allie · 1999A Garifuna woman from Los Angeles returns to Honduras to perform the rites owed to her mother.Cinema
Short storiesUna cierta nostalgiaMaría Eugenia Ramos · 2000not translated into EnglishEleven stories in which neither dreams nor mirrors offer protection from loneliness, madness or repression.Literature