Miguel Ángel Asturias

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Miguel Ángel Asturias in 1968.

Miguel Ángel Asturias (1899-1974) was the first Latin American writer to be awarded the Nobel Prize in literature. A native of Guatemala, Asturias is known for his use of surrealist-inspired magical realism and for his incorporation of folklore and indigenous mythology into his works.

Asturias wrote several novels:

  • El Señor Presidente (1946)
  • Hombres de maíz (1949)
  • Week-end in Guatemala (1956)
  • Los ojos de los enterrados (1960).

One Asturias scholar, René Prieto, contended in 1993 that some of Asturias' best work is among the least well-known[1]/

Notes

  1. ↑ René Prieto. 1993. Miguel Angel Asturias's archeology of return. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press

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