Roberto Sosa (18 April 1930 – 23 May 2011) was an author and poet born in

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. He spent his early life working hard to help provide for his poor family. When he was almost thirty years old, he published his first book. Sosa published ''Los Pobres'' in 1969, which won the Adonais Prize in

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. ''Un Mundo Para Todos Dividido'', published in 1971, won the Casa de las Americas Prize in

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. 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

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, the capital city of Honduras. He was the editor of a magazine, ''Presente'', and the president of the Honduras Journalists’ Union. He also taught literature at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Honduras.

Literary work

* 1959: ''Caligramas'' (Tegucigalpa). * 1966: ''Muros'' (Tegucigalpa). * 1967: ''Mar interior'''' (Tegucigalpa). * 1967: ''Breve estudio sobre la poesía y su creación'' * 1968: ''Los pobres'' (Madrid). * 1971: ''Un mundo para todos dividido'' (La Habana). * 1981: ''Prosa armada'' * 1985: ''Secreto militar'' * 1987: ''Hasta el sol de hoy'' * 1990: ''Obra completa'' * ''Antología personal'' * ''Los pesares juntos'' * 1994: ''Máscara suelta'' * 1995: ''El llanto de las cosas'' * 2011: Antología póstuma ''Honduras, poesía negra'', editada por el Centro Cultural de España en Tegucigalpa y SEDINAFRO * 2016: ''Antología de la poesía amorosa hondureña''

References

1930 births 2011 deaths 20th-century Honduran poets 20th-century male writers Honduran male poets People from Yoro Department Academic staff of Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Honduras {{Honduras-writer-stub