Author · Guatemala
Augusto Monterroso
Died in 2003
Augusto Monterroso (1921-2003), a Guatemalan by birth though born in Honduras, left his country in 1944 after taking part in the opposition to the dictator Ubico, obtained asylum in Mexico and would hardly ever return. He made brevity a system: his fables, bestiaries and prose pieces fit on a page or two, and one of his fictions, seven words about a dinosaur still there on waking, is the most quoted story in Latin American literature. Winner of the Prince of Asturias Prize in 2000, he held his entire work to a few slim volumes and claimed it as such.
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- TaleThe Black Sheep and Other FablesLa oveja negra y demás fábulasAugusto Monterroso · 1969Literature