Clementina Suárez
Clementina Suárez (1902–1991) has been called “the legendary matriarch of Honduran letters.” Her debut poetry collection, released in 1930, was the first ever to be published by a Honduran woman. Over the course of her decades-long career, she authored twelve books and received the Ramón Rosa Literature Prize, Honduras’s highest literary honor. She lived in Mexico and El Salvador also, cultivating artistic communities across genres and borders. (updated 10/2026)
AGNI has published the following work:
Silvia Rosa
Poetry by Clementina Suárez • Translated from the Spanish by J. P. Allen