Arturo Arias

Arturo Arias was born in 1950 in Guatemala and left the country at eighteen. He completed a doctorate in the sociology of literature in Paris, at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales, and gave up returning after the burning of the Spanish embassy in 1980. He co-wrote the screenplay of the film El Norte, nominated for the Oscars, published six novels and several books of criticism, and taught at American universities. Honoured in Havana as early as 1979 for an essay on the Guatemalan revolution, he received the Anna Seghers prize in 1990 and his country's national prize for literature in 2008.

In the catalogue 1

• NovelItzam NaArturo Arias · 1981not translated into EnglishLiterature