Honduras Literature

Honduras literature has poets, novelists and storytellers of remarkable quality in different periods of the history of this Central American country.
In the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century, more noteworthy writers like Froylán Turcios and the modernist poet, Juan Ramon Molina. Lucila Gamero (1873-1964) is the most important novelist of romanticism in Honduras. While green Imprisonment Ramón Amaya Amador, is the novel par excellence with which the literature of social realism in the country was inaugurated. Poets Oscar Acosta, Roberto Sosa, Rigoberto Paredes, Jose Adan Castelar, Alexis Ramirez and Jose Luis Quesada, along with narrators as Julio Escoto, Eduardo Bähr - story book, The Tale of the war - and Ernesto Bondy Reyes - "Women ugly and restorer "- among others and others are opening new writers -literaria and generational perspectives on how to make the national literary and face made from the 60s, 70s and today. You can not ignore the renowned writers Oscar Amaya with her latest tale of prícipes The Prodigy; Galel Cardenas with his latest novel water wall; Denia novelist Nelson Moncada, an outstanding realistic style with an innovative magical touch in his novel "The Return of Wetback," based on testimony awarded in Australia; in this novel, first in Honduran literature, use of some terms of Spanglish is made.
Helen Umaña is one of the few Honduran writers who focused his literary work to the essay and literary criticism, apart from the historian Leticia Oyuela, who has written essays on painting and has published several books on the history of Honduras.