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Oscar Gonzáles (writer)
Oscar Gonzales is an author and poet born in Puerto Cortes, Honduras. He has published five books in the areas of literature and the social sciences and has received important literary awards from Yale University.〔The Yale Daily News, February 7, 1992, http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http://www.geocities.com/ojw/press.htm&date=2009-10-25+23:57:10〕 Lauded by the renowned Mexican poet and intellectual José Emilio Pacheco as "the rise of a fresh and unique young voice," Oscar Gonzales studied under Yale's eminent literary critics Harold Bloom, Manuel Durán, and Roberto González-Echevarría.〔La Prensa, December 27, 1995, Tegucigalpa, Honduras〕 He has a combined B.A. in Latin American studies (history, economics and literature) and B.A./M.A. in Latin American literature from Yale University, and in 1991 he became the first undergraduate to win Yale's coveted Theron Rockwell Field Prize for his anthology of poems Donde el plomo flota (Where Lead Floats). He currently resides in Washington DC with his wife and three children. Durán classifies Gonzales's work with that of Nobel Prize winner Pablo Neruda "because of the amplitude of his poetry's horizons, the strength and firmness of its voice, and the 'intimist' and cosmic sensuality of his love poetry. Eroticism and panoramic vision of nature are characteristics that unite the two poets, together with an interest in the themes of liberty and the disdain of oppression, injustice, tyranny."〔Prologue to Central America in My Heart by Manuel Duran, http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http://www.geocities.com/ojw/duran.htm&date=2009-10-25+23:57:04〕
==Biography==
Gonzales grew up on the north coast of Honduras in the city of Puerto Cortes, one of the largest harbors in Central America. His father was a union organizer for the transnational banana dockworkers union and was persecuted politically for his activities. Although his parents only completed basic schooling, they invested in their children’s education. Gonzales attended the Saint John’s Bilingual School in Puerto Cortes, a grammar school supported by Episcopalian missionaries.〔El Heraldo, December 26, 1995, San Pedro Sula, Honduras http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http://www.geocities.com/ojw/press.htm&date=2009-10-25+23:57:10〕 At age 14 he was awarded a scholarship to attend the Kent School, a New England Boarding School in Kent, Connecticut. He was accepted to attend Yale University. While attending Yale, Oscar was awarded the Theron Rockwell Field Prize for his 35-page book titled ''“Donde El Plomo Flota"'' ("Where Lead Floats"), and became the first undergraduate in Yale history to receive the award. Written in Spanish, the work satirizes social and political realities of his native Honduras and Latin America in general. The committee of judges for the Theron-Rockwell prize "was most impressed with the originality of the work and the powerful poetic voice mastered". His political writings reflect the immense sense of loss and frustration he feels about his country's present economic and political struggles. According to an interview in the Yale Daily News, "through his writing he hopes to lessen the antipathy toward Honduras and awaken a social consciousness". At Yale Gonzales studied under Yale's Harold Bloom, Manuel Durán, and Roberto González-Echevarría.
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