Arturo Mejía Nieto

Arturo Mejía Nieto was born on 3 June 1889 in La Esperanza, in the department of Intibucá; other sources have him born in 1900 or 1901. A schoolteacher, he studied pedagogy in the United States and in 1919 founded a magazine in Tegucigalpa with the poet Martín Paz. Consul in Argentina from 1929 to 1945, then minister plenipotentiary until 1950, he contributed regularly to the daily La Nación. He died in Buenos Aires on 16 May 1972, and his remains were brought back to Tegucigalpa.

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• NovelEl tuncoArturo Mejía Nieto · 1932not translated into EnglishLiterature