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Ramn Amaya AmadorRamn Amaya Amador is Honduras's most famous author. He was born 29th April 1916 in Olanchito in the department of Yoro, and died in a plane crash on {{24th NOvember]] 1966 in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia. After working on the banana plantations along the Northern Caribbean coast of Honduras he published his first work in 1939. He became a journalist in 1941 for El Atlntico (The Atlantic), a La Ceiba newspaper. In October 1943 he founded a weekly magazine in Olanchito called Alerta (Alert). In 1944 he moved to Guatemala, fleeing political persecution. He worked there on the Nuestro Diario (Our Daily) newspaper, and was very supportive of the left-wing government of Jacobo Arbenz. In his 10 years in Guatemala he also worked for the Diario de Centro Amrica (Central American Daily), El Popular Progresista (The Popular Progressive) and Medioda (Midday). When Arbenz regime fell in June 1954 Amador sought refuge in the Argentine embassy before being granted asylum in that country. He worked there for Sarmiento, a popular educative newspaper. He also married the Argentinian Regina Arminda Funes. In May 1957 he returned to Honduras with her. He began working for El Cronista (The Chronicle), and found the magazine Vistazo (View) in Tegucigalpa. He left Honduras with his family, including 2 small children, to move to Prague in Czechoslovakia where he worked on a magazine called Problems of peace and socialism until he was tragically killed at 50 years of age. In September 1977 his remains were returned to Tegucigalpa, but it was not until 1991 that his books were published in Honduras. Published books The dates are when the books were written, not when they were first published. - Prisin verde 1945
- Amanecer 1947
- El indio Snchez 1948
- Bajo el signo de la Paz 1952
- Constructores 1957
- El seor de la sierra 1957
- Los brujos de Ilamatepeque 1958
- Biografa de un machete 1959
- Destacamento Rojo 1960
- El camino de mayo 1963
- Cipotes 1963
- Con la misma herradura 1963
- Jacinta Peralta 1964
- Operacin gorila 1965
External links Biography in Spanish
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