Author · Guatemala
Miguel Ángel Asturias
Died in 1974
Miguel Ángel Asturias was born in Guatemala City in 1899 and devoted his law thesis to the condition of the Indians. In Paris in the twenties, he attended Georges Raynaud's teaching on Mayan religions and translated the Popol Vuh into Spanish from the French version: this double training, ethnographic and surrealist, shaped his writing. Exiled under successive dictatorships, he lived in Mexico, Argentina and Europe, and was stripped of his nationality in 1954. Ambassador of Guatemala to France in the sixties, he received the Nobel Prize in 1967 and died in Madrid in 1974.
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- NovelThe PresidentEl señor PresidenteMiguel Ángel Asturias · 1946Literature