Óscar Acosta

Óscar Acosta Zeledón
Born (1933-04-14)14 April 1933
Las Delicias, Honduras
Died 15 July 2014(2014-07-15) (aged 81)
Tegucigalpa
Nationality Honduran
Institutions Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Honduras
Notable awards Premio Rubén Darío (1960), el Premio Nacional de Literatura Ramón Sosa (1970)

Óscar Acosta Zeledón (14 April 1933 – 15 July 2014) was a Honduran writer, poet, critic, politician and diplomat.[1][2][3]

He was born in the Las Delicias neighborhood of Tegucigalpa, Honduras, on 14 April 1933.[4][5]

Acosta began his career as a journalist in Peru for Tegucigalpa Magazine. He founded la Editorial Nuevo Continente, las revistas Extra, Presente, la Editorial Iberoamericana, and Honduras Literaria y Extra. He was director of the University Press of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Honduras.[6]

Acosta died in Tegucigalpa at the age of 81 on 15 July 2014.[5]

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