Augusto Coello

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)^[1] and Canto a la bandera (1934). His son, also named Augusto Coello, was a writer as well.^[2]

Bibliography

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

References

^ 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.
^ 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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[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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