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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 ...
Jul 25, 2023 · Death Valley may not have gotten its name from a scorching summer’s day. But 174 years after it was named, the barren, salty valley is still as inhospitable as it was in 1849.
Asturias died in Madrid and is buried in the Père-Lachaise Cemetery in Paris. Asturias, essentially a novelist, also wrote poetry, plays, and journal articles.
The Kingdom of Asturias was divided after the death of King Alfonso III the Great, who distributed his dominions among three of his five sons.
Jun 10, 1974 · MADRID, June 9 (UPI)—Mi guel Angel Asturias, the Guatemalan novelist, poet and diplomat who won the 1967 Nobel Prize for literature, died here today in a hospital. He was 74 years old.
Why is it called Death Valley? Death Valley was given its forbidding name by a group of pioneers lost here in the winter of 1849-1850. Even though, as far as we know, only one of the group died here, they all assumed that this valley would be their grave.
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Mar 13, 2024 · A wedge-shaped chunk of Spain’s north coast, fatter at the western end and thinner in the east, Asturias is one of the four “autonomous communities” ranged along the Cantabrian coast from Galicia...
