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One of Asturias' most famous novels, El Señor Presidente, describes life under a ruthless dictator. The novel influenced later Latin American novelists in its mixture of realism and fantasy. Asturias' very public opposition to dictatorial rule led to him spending much of his later life in exile, both in South America and in Europe.
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- 9 June 1974 (aged 74), Madrid, Spain
- Miguel Ángel Asturias Rosales, 19 October 1899, Guatemala City, Guatemala
Miguel Ángel Asturias. 126 books349 followers. Follow. Guatemalan poet, novelist, diplomat, and winner of the Nobel Prize for literature in 1967. Asturias's writings combine the mysticism of the Maya with epic impulse toward social protest. His most famous novel is EL SEÑOR PRESIDENTE (1946), about life under the rule of a ruthless dictator.
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Sep 29, 2021 · The President is one of Miguel Ángel Asturias’ most famous novels. In it, he describes what life was like under the regime of Dictator Manuel Estrada Cabrera. This publication and the public opposition of the author cost his exile. As you read this book you will get close to the nature of the American dictatorships, not at all unknown by ...
Nobel Prize–winning Guatemalan author Miguel Ángel Asturias’s masterpiece—the original Latin American dictator novel and pioneering work of magical realism—in its first new English translation in more than half a century, featuring a foreword by Nobel laureate Mario Vargas Llosa A Penguin Classic
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- The President by Miguel Ángel Asturias.
- Men of Maize: The Modernist Epic of the Guatemalan Indians by Miguel Ángel Asturias, Gerald Martin (Translator)
- Leyendas de Guatemala by Miguel Ángel Asturias.
- الريح القوية by Miguel Ángel Asturias, ميجيل آنخيل أستورياس, صالح علماني (Translator)
Aug 10, 2022 · Asturias did some of his best writing during that time: “ Legends of Guatemala ,” a collection of nine stories based on Mayan myths, which was published in Spanish in 1930, and, two years...
His most famous novel is EL SEÑOR PRESIDENTE (1946), about life under the rule of a ruthless dictator. Asturias spent much of his life in exile because of his public opposition to dictatorial rule. Guatemalan poet, novelist, diplomat, and winner of the Nobel Prize for literature in 1967.
