{{Short description|Honduran writer of the national anthem (1884–1941)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=January 2024}}
'''Augusto Constantino Coello Estévez''' (1 September 1884 in Tegucigalpa – 8 September 1941 in San Salvador) was a Honduran writer, poet, professor and politician. He is the author of the lyrics of the National Anthem of Honduras.
== Biography == Coello became a deputy in the Honduras National Congress in 1904. He was director of various newspapers, ''El Imparcial'', ''En Marcha'' and ''Pro-Patria'' in Honduras and ''La Prensa Libre'', ''La República'', ''El Diario'', ''El Pabellón Rojo y Blanco'' in Costa Rica.
He wrote the lyrics for the National Anthem of Honduras in 1915 and wrote two books, ''El tratado de 1843 con los indios moscos'' (1923)<ref>{{Cite book|last=Pan American Union|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kq8bAAAAMAAJ&dq=Augusto+Coello&pg=PA661|title=Bulletin of the Pan American Union|publisher=Union of American Republics|year=1938|location=Washington, D.C.|pages=661|language=en|chapter=Notes on Inter-American Books and Libraries}}</ref> and ''Canto a la bandera'' (1934). His son, also named Augusto Coello, was a writer too.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Euraque|first=Dario A.|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6FxulC7gMlMC&dq=Augusto+Coello&pg=PA163|title=Identity and Struggle at the Margins of the Nation-state: The Laboring Peoples of Central America and the Hispanic Caribbean|publisher=Duke University Press|year=1998|isbn=978-0-8223-2218-4|editor-last=Chomsky|editor-first=Aviva|location=Durham and London|pages=163|language=en|chapter=The Banana Enclave, Nationalism and Mestizaje in Honduras, 1910s - 1930s|editor-last2=Lauria-Santiago|editor-first2=Aido}}</ref>
== Bibliography ==
* ''El tratado de 1843 con los indios moscos'' (1923) * ''Canto a la bandera'' (1934)
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Coello, Augusto}} Category:Deputies of the National Congress of Honduras Category:1941 deaths Category:1884 births Category:National anthem writers
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