Horacio Castellanos Moya (born 1957) is a novelist, short story writer, and journalist. He was born in Honduras but grew up in El Salvador, and is considered one of the country’s most important writers.
Castellanos Moya was born in 1957 in Tegucigalpa, Honduras to a Honduran mother and a Salvadoran father. His family moved to El Salvador when he was four years old. He lived there until 1979 when he left to briefly attend York University in Toronto.
On a visit home, he witnessed a demonstration of unarmed students and workers in which twenty-one people were killed by government snipers. He left El Salvador that March, but did not go back to Canada for school. Instead, he traveled to Costa Rica and Mexico, where he found work as a journalist. He wrote sympathetically about the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front, a political party that formed following the 1932 Salvadoran peasant massacre. He soon, however, grew disillusioned by violent fighting within the party.
In 1991, Castellanos Moya returned to El Salvador to write for a monthly cultural magazine, Tendencias. In 1995, he contributed to the founding of the weekly publication Primera Plana and worked there until 1996. Over the next few years, he wrote and published several novels, including Senselessness, The She-Devil in the Mirror, and Revulsion: Thomas Bernhard in San Salvador.
Starting in 2002, he lived in Mexico City in self-imposed exile for ten years. He began writing a new novel called Guatemala: Nunca más! (Never Again!). It was published as Insensatez in 2004. In 2008, the novel became his first work to be translated into English.
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