biography
| name: |
Asturias, Miguel Angel
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pronunciation:
[astoorias]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1899–1974)
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| biography:
| Novelist and poet, born in Guatemala City, Guatemala. A law graduate from the National University, he spent many years in exile, particularly in Paris, where he studied anthropology. His novels, many of which reflect Mayan Indian influences, include El señor presidente (1946, The President), Hombres de maíz (1949, Men of Maize), and a trilogy on the foreign exploitation of the banana trade. In the Guatemalan civil service from 1946, he was ambassador to France, 1966–70. He was awarded the Lenin Peace Prize in 1966 and the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1967. |
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