Mario Monteforte Toledo

Mario Monteforte Toledo was born in 1911 in Guatemala City. A lawyer trained at the University of San Carlos, he also studied at the Sorbonne. After the revolution of 1944, he represented his country at the United Nations, was a deputy, then president of Congress and vice-president of the Republic. Settling afterwards in Mexico, he taught sociology at the National Autonomous University there. A novelist, playwright and poet, he received in 1993 the Miguel Ángel Asturias National Prize for Literature. He died in 2003.

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• NovelEntre la piedra y la cruzMario Monteforte Toledo · 1948not translated into EnglishLiterature