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- ↑ "Horacio Castellanos Moya | Spanish and Portuguese | Division of World Languages, Literatures and Cultures | The University of Iowa". spanish-portuguese.uiowa.edu. Retrieved Aug 5, 2019.
- ↑ Horacio Castellanos Moya columnist profile Sampsonia Way
- ↑ "Escritor salvadoreno Horacio Castellanos Moya obtuvo el Premio de Narrativa Manuel Rojas" [Salvadoran Writer Horacio Castellanos Moya Receives the Manual Rojas Narrative Award] (in Spanish). National Council of Culture and the Arts. 14 May 2014. Retrieved 3 September 2018.
