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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 ...
- Novelist
- 9 June 1974 (aged 74), Madrid, Spain
- Miguel Ángel Asturias Rosales, 19 October 1899, Guatemala City, Guatemala
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. His writings, which combine the mysticism of the Maya with an epic impulse toward social ...
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Miguel Ángel Asturias, (born Oct. 19, 1899, Guatemala City, Guat.—died June 9, 1974, Madrid, Spain), Guatemalan poet, novelist, and diplomat. He moved to Paris in 1923 and became a Surrealist under the influence of André Breton. His first major works appeared in the 1930s. He began his diplomatic career in 1946; it culminated in his serving ...
Miguel Ángel Asturias was born in Guatemala City in 1899, a year after the appointment of President Manuel Estrada Cabrera. His father, Ernesto Asturias, was a lawyer and a notary. [2] His mother, María Rosales de Asturias, was a schoolteacher. [3]
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Dec 11, 2019 · 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.
- Rebecca Bodenheimer
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.
Asturias spent his remaining years in Madrid, where he died on June 9, 1974, after a career in which literature and politics were inextricably intermingled. ... Miguel Ángel Asturias was born in ...
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