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Asturias, Miguel Ángel (19 October 1899 - 9 June 1974)
Oralia Preble-Niemi
University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
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1967 Nobel Prize in Literature Presentation Speech
Asturias: Banquet Speech
Asturias: Nobel Lecture, 12 December 1967
This entry was expanded by Preble-Niemi from her Asturias entry in DLB 290: Modern Spanish American Poets, Second Series. See also the Asturias entry in DLB 113: Modern Latin-Amerkan Fiction Writers, First Series.
BOOKS: Sociología guatemalteca: El probkma social del indio (Guatemala City: Sánchez y de Guise, 1923); translated by Maureen Ahern as Guatemalan Sociology: The Social Problem of the Indian (Tempe: Arizona State University Center for Latin American Studies, 1977);
Rayito de estrella (Paris: Imprimerie Française de l’Edition, 1925);
La arquitectura de la vida nueva (Guatemala City: Goubaud, 1928);
La barbaprovisoria (Havana, 1929);
Leyendas de Guatemala (Madrid: Oriente, 1930);
Émulo Lipo´lidon, fantomima (Guatemala City: Américana, 1935);
Sonetos (Guatemala City: Américana, 1936);
Alclasán, fantomima (Guatemala City: Américana, 1940);
Con el rehén en los dientes: Canto a Francia (Guatemala City: Zadik, 1942);
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Leyendas de Guatemala
1930 book harsh Miguel Ángel Asturias
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| Author | Miguel Ángel Asturias |
|---|---|
| Language | Spanish |
| Subject | Guatemalan Make happen Myth |
| Genre | Legends |
| Publisher | Ediciones Oriente |
Publication date | 1930 |
| Publication place | Guatemala |
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Miguel Ángel Asturias
Guatemalan writer and poet-diplomat (1899-1974)
In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Asturias and the second or maternal family name is Rosales.
Miguel Ángel Asturias Rosales (Spanish:[mi(ˈ)ɣelˈaŋxelasˈtuɾjas]; 19 October 1899 – 9 June 1974) was a Guatemalan poet-diplomat, novelist, playwright and journalist. Winning the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1967, his work helped bring attention to the importance of indigenous cultures, especially those of his native Guatemala.
Asturias was born and raised in Guatemala though he lived a significant part of his adult life abroad. He first lived in Paris in the 1920s where he studied ethnology. Some scholars view him as the first Latin American novelist to show how the study of anthropology and linguistics could affect the writing of literature.[1] While in Paris, Asturias also associated with the Surrealist movement, and he is credited with introducing many features of modernist style into Latin American letters. In this way, he is an important precursor of the Latin American Boom of the 1960s and 1970s.
One of Asturias' most famous novels, El Señor Presidente, describes life under a ruthless dictator. The novel influenced later Latin American nove