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Roberto Sosa (poet)
Roberto Sosa (18 April 1930 – 23 May 2011) was a Honduran author and poet born in Yoro, Honduras. He spent his early life working hard to help provide for his poor family. He published his first book when he was almost thirty years old. Sosa published ''Los Pobres'' in 1969, which won the Premio Adonais, Adonais Prize in Spain. ''Un Mundo Para Todos Dividido'', published in 1971, won the Casa de las Americas Prize in Cuba. By 1990, he had published six books of poetry, three of prose, and two anthologies of Honduran literature. In 1990, he published ''Obra Completa'' (Complete Works). ''The Difficult Days'', ''Poems'', ''The Common Grief'', and ''The Return of the River'' have all been translated into English. At the time of his death, Sosa lived in Tegucigalpa, the capital city of Honduras. He was the editor of a magazine, Presente (magazine), ''Presente'', and the president of the Honduras Journalists’ Union. He also taught literature at the National Autonomous University of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yoro
Yoro, with a population of 101,849 (2022 calculation), is the capital city of the Yoro Department of Honduras and the municipal seat of Yoro Municipality. It is notable for a local event known as Lluvia de Peces, where it is claimed that strong storms make fish fall from the sky. Demographics At the time of the 2013 Honduras census, Yoro municipality had a population of 86,665. Of these, 86.52% were Mestizo, 10.65% Indigenous peoples of the Americas, Indigenous (10.05% Tolupan, 0.41% Lenca), 1.98% White Latin Americans, White, 0.80% Afro-Hondurans, Black or Afro-Honduran and 0.05% others. References Municipalities of the Yoro Department {{Honduras-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Premio Adonáis De Poesía
The Premio Adonáis, or Adonais Prize for Poetry, is awarded annually in Spain by Ediciones RIALP to an unpublished Spanish language poem. Runners-up are also recognized. Named after the collection of the same name, the Adonais Prize was created in 1943 (a year before the Premio Nadal) by the publishing house Biblioteca Hispánica, which was then directed by Juan Gerrero Ruiz, best friend of Juan Ramón Jiménez. In 1946, the Prize was placed in the hands of Ediciones RIALP, which has maintained it to this day. In its first few years, the Prize contributed to the rise of major poets of the Spanish postwar period. The Adonais is similar to the Premio Hiperión, which also promotes young authors. The prize is awarded in December of each year. List of winning authors and books *1943. José Suárez Carreño (Spain), ''Edad del hombre''; Vicente Gaos (Spain), ''Arcángel de mi noche''; Alfonso Moreno (Spain), ''El vuelo de la carne''. *1944. Not awarded. * 1945. Not awarded. *1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Honduras
Honduras, officially the Republic of Honduras, is a country in Central America. It is bordered to the west by Guatemala, to the southwest by El Salvador, to the southeast by Nicaragua, to the south by the Pacific Ocean at the Gulf of Fonseca, and to the north by the Gulf of Honduras, a large inlet of the Caribbean Sea. Its Capital city, capital and largest city is Tegucigalpa. Honduras was home to several important Mesoamerican cultures, most notably the Maya civilization, Maya, before Spanish colonization of the Americas, Spanish colonization in the sixteenth century. The Spanish introduced Catholic Church, Catholicism and the now predominant Spanish language, along with numerous customs that have blended with the indigenous culture. Honduras became independent in 1821 and has since been a republic, although it has consistently endured much social strife and political instability, and remains one of the poorest countries in the Western Hemisphere. In 1960, the northern part o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Premio Adonais
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Spain
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Cuba
Cuba, officially the Republic of Cuba, is an island country, comprising the island of Cuba (largest island), Isla de la Juventud, and List of islands of Cuba, 4,195 islands, islets and cays surrounding the main island. It is located where the northern Caribbean Sea, Gulf of Mexico, and Atlantic Ocean meet. Cuba is located east of the Yucatán Peninsula (Mexico), south of both Florida and the Bahamas, west of Hispaniola (Haiti/Dominican Republic), and north of Jamaica and the Cayman Islands. Havana is the largest city and capital. Cuba is the List of countries and dependencies by population, third-most populous country in the Caribbean after Haiti and the Dominican Republic, with about 10 million inhabitants. It is the largest country in the Caribbean by area. The territory that is now Cuba was inhabited as early as the 4th millennium BC, with the Guanahatabey and Taino, Taíno peoples inhabiting the area at the time of Spanish colonization of the Americas, Spanish colonization ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tegucigalpa
Tegucigalpa ( )—formally Tegucigalpa, Municipality of the Central District ( or ''Tegucigalpa, M.D.C.''), and colloquially referred to as ''Tegus'' or ''Teguz''—is the capital and largest city of Honduras along with its sister city, Comayagüela. Claimed on 29 September 1578 by the Spanish colonization of the Americas, Spaniards, Tegucigalpa became the Honduran capital on 30 October 1880, under President Marco Aurelio Soto, when he moved the seat of government from Comayagua, which had been the Honduran capital since its independence in 1841. The 1936 constitution established Tegucigalpa and Comayagua as a Central District, and the current 1982 Honduran Constitution continues to define the sister cities as a #Central District, Central District that serves as the permanent national capital. Tegucigalpa is located in the southern-central highland region known as the Departments of Honduras, department of Francisco Morazán Department, Francisco Morazán of which it is also t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Presente (magazine)
Presente may refer to: * The Present * ¡Presente! School of the Americas Watch is an advocacy organization founded by former Maryknoll Father Roy Bourgeois and a group of supporters in 1990 to protest the training of mainly Latin American military officers, by the United States Department of Defen ..., the newsletter of the School of the Americas Watch * Presente.org, an American advocacy group that "exists to amplify the political voice of Latino communities" in the United States * ''Presente'' (Renato Russo album), 2003 * ''Presente'' (Bajofondo album), 2013 {{dab ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Autonomous University Of Honduras
National may refer to: Common uses * Nation or country ** Nationality – a ''national'' is a person who is subject to a nation, regardless of whether the person has full rights as a citizen Places in the United States * National, Maryland, census-designated place * National, Nevada, ghost town * National, Utah, ghost town * National, West Virginia, unincorporated community Commerce * National (brand), a brand name of electronic goods from Panasonic * National Benzole (or simply known as National), former petrol station chain in the UK, merged with BP * National Book Store, a bookstore and office supplies chain in the Philippines * National Car Rental, an American rental car company * National Energy Systems, a former name of Eco Marine Power * National Entertainment Commission, a former name of the Media Rating Council * National Motor Vehicle Company, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA 1900–1924 * National Radio Company, Malden, Massachusetts, USA 1914–1991 * National Supermark ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1930 Births
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2011 Deaths
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