Roberto Sosa (poet)

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

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).[citation needed
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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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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

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