Honduran literature is literature originating from Honduras. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, famous Honduran literature was written by Froylán Turcios and the modernist poet Juan Ramón Molina. Lucila Gamero de Medina is the most important Honduran romantic novelist. Ramón Amaya Amador's Green Prison, written in the 1940s, is the novel that marks the beginning of Honduran social realism. The poets Óscar Acosta, Roberto Sosa, Rigoberto Paredes, José Adán Castelar, Alexis Ramírez and José Luis Quesada, together with story writers like Julio Escoto, Eduardo Bähr (El cuento de la guerra), and Ernesto Bondy Reyes ("La mujer fea y el restaurador"), are the writers who opened new literary and generational perspectives in literature beginning 1960s and 1970s and continuing through today.