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Poems by Miguel Angel Asturias. Considered Guatemala's greatest writer and the father of magical realism, Miguel Angel Asturias was awarded the 1967 Nobel Prize in Literature.
Oct 19, 2017 · 11 Poemas de Miguel Ángel Asturias – Poiesis/ποίησις. El Amor. (Paris, 1925) ¡Ah, suave afán, cabal e inútil pena, clima de una piel tibia como un trino, en secreto misterio la cadena. forjando está con sólo ser divino! Astral tonicidad de sus recreos, preciosa soledad de sus combates, en linterna de alarma sus deseos.
- Early Life
- Early Career and Travels
- Asturias' Diplomatic Posts and Major Publications
- Literary Style and Themes
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Miguel Ángel Asturias Rosales was born on October 19, 1899 in Guatemala City to a lawyer, Ernesto Asturias, and a teacher, María Rosales de Asturias. Fearing persecution by the dictatorship of Manuel Estrada Cabrera, his family moved to the small city of Salamá in 1905, where Asturias learned about Mayan culture from his mother and nanny. The famil...
After finishing university, Asturias helped found the Popular University of Guatemala to offer educational access to students who couldn't afford to attend the national university. His leftist activism led to a brief imprisonment under President José María Orellana, so his father sent him to London in 1923 to avoid further trouble. Asturias quickly...
Asturias served as a deputy in the Guatemalan National Congress in 1942, and would go on to hold a number of diplomatic posts beginning in 1945. The president who succeeded Ubico, Juan José Arévalo, appointed Asturias as the cultural attaché to the Guatemalan Embassy in Mexico, where "El Señor Presidente" was first published in 1946. In 1947, he wa...
Asturias was considered to be an important exponent of the famed Latin American literary style magical realism. For example, "Legends of Guatemala" draws on indigenous spirituality and supernatural/mythical elements and characters, common features of magical realism. Although he did not speak an indigenous language, he used Mayan vocabulary often i...
In 1967, Asturias was was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. In his Nobel lecture, he stated, "We, the Latin American novelists of today, working within the tradition of engagement with our peoples which has enabled our great literature to develop—our poetry of substance—also have to reclaim lands for our dispossessed, mines for our exploited ...
In 1988, the Guatemalan government established an award in his honor, the Miguel Ángel Asturias Prize in Literature. The national theater in Guatemala City is also named after him. Asturias is particularly remembered as a champion of the indigenous people and culture of Guatemala. Beyond the ways indigenous culture and beliefs were reflected in his...
Franco, Jean. An Introduction to Spanish-American Literature, 3rd edition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994."Miguel Angel Asturias – Facts." NobelPrize.org. https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/1967/asturias/facts/, accessed 3 November 2019.Smith, Verity, editor. Encyclopedia of Latin American Literature. Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 1997.Learn about the life and achievements of Miguel Angel Asturias, a Guatemalan poet, writer, and Nobel Prize winner. Explore his novels, stories, and poems that reflect his social and political views and his interest in Mayan culture.
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Miguel Ángel Asturias Rosales (Spanish pronunciation: [mi(ˈ)ɣel ˈaŋxel asˈtuɾjas]; 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 ...
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Miguel Ángel Asturias (born October 19, 1899, Guatemala City, Guatemala—died June 9, 1974, Madrid, Spain) was a Guatemalan poet, novelist, and diplomat, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1967 and the Soviet Union’s Lenin Peace Prize in 1966.
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