Diccionario de escritores centroamericanos
By: Jorge Eduardo Arellano.
Publisher: ASDI-Bibliotecas Nacionales de Centroamérica y Panamá
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Managua
Language: spa
Number of pages: 154
Subjects: Authors, Central American -- Biography -- Dictionaries; Central American literature -- Bio-bibliography
Description: "Provides a biographical and bibliographical compendium of Central American writers. The brief entries for Costa Rica (65), El Salvador (55), Guatemala (74), Honduras (65), Nicaragua (78), and Panama (65) cover mainly 20th-century writers (the earliest is Nicaraguan Mariano Barreto, 1856-1927). Each national section is preceded by commentaries on that country's most important writers, thus for Guatemala there are no entries for Asturias or Arévalo Martínez but rather a note about each. Despite his attention to Panama, the youngest Central American state, Arellano has omitted discussion of the important colonial and 19th-century literatures for Nicaragua and Guatemala. Although flawed, this work is necessary given the paucity of Central American publications of this kind and limited access to them"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.