Arturo Aires MEJÍA NIETO

Background

MEJÍA NIETO, Arturo was born in June 1900 in La Esperanza. Son of Vicente Mejia and Lucila V. de Mejia.

Education

Educated Escuela Normal de Occidente, Escuela Normal de Tegucigalpa, graduated 1919. Student of education, United States of America.

Career

Consul of Honduras in Buenos Aires since 1929.

Membership

Instituto ArgentinoNorteamericano, Academia Americana de Historia, and Ateneo Ibero-Americano, all of Buenos Aires. Sociedad de Geografía e Historia de Honduras (corresponding). Author (all works published in Buenos Aires): Relatos nativos (1929).

Zapatos viejos (1930). El solterón (1931); El tunco (1932). El perfil americano, ensayo de interpretación de la realidad de Norte-América e Hispanoamérica (considered the “best book of the month,” May, 1933, by the PEN Club of Buenos Aires.

Published 1933); contributor to La Nación of Buenos Aires.

Connections

Father:

Vicente Mejia

Mother:

Lucila V. de Mejia