Óscar Acosta, Honduran author, poet, and diplomat (b. 1933)
Óscar Acosta Zeledón (14 April 1933 – 15 July 2014) was a Honduran writer, poet, critic, politician and diplomat.He was born in the Las Delicias neighborhood of Tegucigalpa, Honduras, on 14 April 1933.Acosta began his career as a journalist in Peru for Tegucigalpa Magazine. He founded la Editorial Nuevo Continente, las revistas Extra, Presente, la Editorial Iberoamericana, and Honduras Literaria y Extra.
He was director of the University Press of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Honduras.Acosta died in Tegucigalpa at the age of 81 on 15 July 2014.
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International recognition of the State of Palestine
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