Medardo Mejía

Medardo Mejía was born in 1907 in Olancho, in Manto according to most sources, in San Juan de Jimasque according to another. A journalist, he chose exile rather than serve those in power and lived in Guatemala, from where he returned in the mid-fifties. He founded the review Ariel in 1964, which he directed until 1976, and is counted among the first historians of the country to read its past with the categories of Marxism; his general history of Honduras appeared in six volumes in the eighties. Winner of the Ramón Rosa national prize in 1971, he died in Tegucigalpa in 1981.

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• TheatreLos diezmos de OlanchoMedardo Mejía · 1976not translated into EnglishLiterature