Ramón Amaya Amador

Ramón Amaya Amador was born in the municipality of Olanchito, Yoro, on April 29, 1916, his parents being Isabel Amaya and Guillermo R. Amador. 

After working as a laborer in the banana fields of the north coast, he began his career as a storyteller and his story "La nochebuena del campeño Juan Blas" was published in issue 15 of the ANC magazine, an organ of the National Association of Chroniclers. published in Tegucigalpa and corresponding to December 31, 1939. 

Who was Ramon Amaya Amador?

Ramón Amaya Amador, storyteller and journalist, is one of the most prolific writers in the country and the one who has more published works.

Ramón Amaya Amador began his journalistic life in 1941 as an editor, first, and later as editor-in-chief of the newspaper El Atlántico, from La Ceiba, founded and directed by Ángel Moya Posas. Subsequently, on October 8, 1943, Ramón Amaya Amador founded in Olanchito, with Dionisio Romero Narváez, the weekly Alert, with the valuable collaboration of his colleague Pablo Magín Romero.

 

Exile

The writer left his homeland in 1944 due to the persecution of the Cariato, settling in Guatemala, where he worked as an editorial writer for Nuestro Diario, during the democratic regime of Dr. Juan José Arévalo, also delivering his contributions to the Diario de Centro América, El Popular Progresista and noon. After the fall of the government of Jacobo Arbenz Guzmán, our compatriot took refuge in the headquarters of the Argentine Embassy, ​​traveling to that southern nation. In Buenos Aires he worked in the publishing house "Ariel" and in Sarmiento, a popular education newspaper, published in the city of Córdoba.

On May 19, 1957, Ramón Amaya Amador returned to Honduras, accompanied by his wife Regina Arminda Funes, originally from Córdoba, Argentina; in that year he joined the editorial staff of the newspaper El Cronista, run by Alejandro Valladares, and founded in Tegucigalpa, with Luis Manuel Zúniga, the magazine Vistazo.

The Honduran Literary Circle paid tribute to him at the Paraninfo of the National Autonomous University in Tegucigalpa on November 11, 1958, with the rector Lisandro Gálvez and university students Rafael Leiva Vivas, J. Delmer Urbizo and Oscar Acosta intervening.

On that occasion, Ramón Amaya Amador read an extensive speech of gratitude in which he affirmed that it was the first time that in his homeland he had received an honorable distinction for his work in letters and culture. This document can be considered as his literary testament.

On April 19, 1959 he left Tegucigalpa with his wife Arminda and his young children: Aixa Ixchel and Carlos Raúl, to settle in Prague, Czechoslovakia, integrating the editorial staff of the magazine Problems of Peace and the Socialism.

Death

Between November 14 and 20, 1966, Ramón Amaya Amador traveled to Sofia, in Bulgaria, on behalf of the Communist Party of Honduras, to the Congress of the Bulgarian Communist Party that was held in the capital.

On November 24, Amaya Amador took flight TABSO LZ101 back, bound for Prague via Budapest, however, the flight deviated from its route due to bad weather and had to land in Bratislava, Slovakia. A few minutes after leaving, the plane crashed 5 miles from the airport, killing 74 passengers and 8 crew members, including Ramón Amaya Amador.

In September 1977 the remains of Ramón Amaya Amador were finally repatriated and returned to the city of Tegucigalpa. His widow, Regina Arminda Fúnez, died in the Argentine Republic in 2007.

Published Works

• 
  Green Prison (1945)
• Dawn (1947)
• The Indian Sánchez (1948)
• Under the Sign of Peace (1953)
• Constructures (1957)
• The Lord of the Sierra (1957)
• The witches of Ilamatepeque (1958)
• Memoirs of a scoundrel (1958)
• Biography of a machete (1959)
• Red Detachment (1960)
• The May Road (1963)
• Cocks (1963)
• With the same horseshoe (1963)
• Jacinta Peralta (1964)
• Operation Gorilla (1965)
• Morazaneida (1966) So far only one volume of five edited
• The rebels of the town of San Miguel 1964-1966

 

Inedited books

• 
  The Grinding (1944)
• The India of Love Defeated (1955)
• Mahogany Borders (1956)
• Memoirs of a scoundrel (1959)
• Jug seekers (1961)
• An Apprentice Messiah (1961)
• Wildlands of the coyol or cinchonero (1962)
• The Bottled Man (1965)
• Holy land (1965)
• Morazaneida (1966) So far only one volume of five edited
• Junco's Hat
• The Pa and the Blood
• Shadows of the Mountain
• The Last Order

Summary of Cipotes

The plot collects the painful and hectic life of this small world of shoeshine whose center is the bronze statue of the martyr of the Central American unity, the children who dedicate themselves to this work go to him not because they want to or because they like to kneel In front of those who wear luxurious shoes, while they walk with their bare feet, in general these are families that lose their father and these children cannot go to school and must join any activity to contribute some pennies to the house.

Source of information: redhonduras.com and Wikipedia

By: Fiorella Fuentes-10A

Institute: Centro Cultural Sampedrano

Teacher: Ms. Aquino

Final Project of the 4th Partial of English