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137:. She was a journalist and novelist, who wrote in the romantic style with feminist themes. She won numerous awards for her books, including the Golden Quetzel from Guatemala, the Honduran National Literature Prize Ramón Rosa" and the "Order Cruzeiro do Sud" from Brazil. She was admitted to the
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was adapted for the stage by Ligia Bernal de
Samayoa. In 1964, the book won a Golden Quetzal from Guatemala as best book of the year and Díaz Lozano returned from Belgium to be appointed Cultural Attaché for the Honduran Embassy in Guatemala.
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and though she did not necessarily agree with his politics she found him an interesting personality. In 1968, she published a biography of him and was awarded the
Honduran National Literature Prize "Ramón Rosa" and admitted to the
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