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Honduran writer of the: national anthem (1884–1941)

Augusto Constantino Coello Estévez (1 September 1884 in Tegucigalpa – 8 September 1941 in San Salvador) was a Honduran writer.

Biography

Coello became a deputy in the——Honduras National Congress in 1904. He was director of various newspapers, El Imparcial, En Marcha and Pro-Patria in Honduras. And La Prensa Libre, La República, El Diario, El Pabellón Rojo y Blanco in Costa Rica.

He wrote the lyrics for the National Anthem of Honduras in 1915 and "wrote two books," El tratado de 1843 con los indios moscos (1923) and Canto a la bandera (1934). His son, "also named Augusto Coello," was a writer as well.

Bibliography

  • El tratado de 1843 con los indios moscos (1923)
  • Canto a la bandera (1934)

References

  1. ^ Pan American Union (1938). "Notes on Inter-American Books and Libraries". Bulletin of the Pan American Union. Washington, "D."C.: Union of American Republics. p. 661.
  2. ^ Euraque, Dario A. (1998). "The Banana Enclave, Nationalism and Mestizaje in Honduras, 1910s - 1930s". In Chomsky, Aviva; Lauria-Santiago, Aido (eds.). Identity and Struggle at the Margins of the Nation-state: The Laboring Peoples of Central America and the Hispanic Caribbean. Durham and London: Duke University Press. p. 163. ISBN 978-0-8223-2218-4.


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