Eduardo Bähr
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Eduardo Bähr (b. 1940, Tela, Honduras) is a Honduran writer, scriptwriter and actor.
He was one of the 50 intellectuals awarded by the government of Chile in 1996 with the Gabriela Mistral Medal (also given to Mexico's Octavio Paz, Spain's Rafael Alberti and Nicaragua's Ernesto Cardenal, among others). For many years he taught Honduran and Latin-American Literature at the National University of Honduras, where he also directed the University Theater Company.
Segments of his novel El cuento de la guerra (the war story) have been translated into English, French and German. The book's theme is the armed conflict that opposed Honduras and El Salvador in 1969.
Bähr is a member of "Artistas de la Gente", a collective of five artists of different generations and disciplines that develop critical political art.
He is currently living in Tegucigalpa, where he runs a non profit editorial service to promote publication among low-income Honduran and Central American artists and students.
[edit] Bibliography
1994, Tarzan of the Apes, Contemporary short stories from Central America / edited by Enrique Jaramillo Levi and Leland H. Chambers; translations coordinated by Leland H. Chambers; translated by Lynne Beyer ... [et al.]. University of Texas Press.
1988, "The Fever Heroes" in Barbara Paschke and David Volpendesta, Clamor of Innocence: Stories from Central America (City Lights)
2003, El niño de la montaña de la Flor, Traducido al catalán por la Editorial Vilatana, España.
2003, "Los Héroes de la fiebre" en Enríque Jaramillo Levi (comp.) Pequeñas Resistencias 2. Antología del Cuento Centroamericano Contemporáneo, VV.AA. Editorial: Editorial Páginas de Espuma, Colección Voces, volumen 32, Madrid.
2002, "Fondo de Reptiles", en Honduras: Prensa, Poder y Democracia, CEDOH, Tegucigalpa.
2001, "La Flora Maga", en Línea de Fuga, N°5, enero-marzo, México.
1998, "Malamuerte" in Revista Astrolabio, n°1, agosto, CEDOH, Tegucigalpa.
1997-1998, "La Flora Maga" en L'ordinaire Latino-américain, N° 176, IPEALT, Toulouse, France.
1992, "Tegucigalpa. Paseo por la ciudad desolada", in Nueva Sociedad, n° 120, Julio – Agosto. Caracas.
[edit] Cinema
- The Scattered Body and The World Upside Down / Utopia, TV, Germany. Directed by Raúl Ruiz. 1975
- No hay tierra sin dueño, Honduras, Director Sami Kafati. 2001
