Miguel Angel Asturias

Miguel Angel Asturias (born 1899 October 19 (Guatemala City, Guatemala) was a oet, novelist, diplomat, winner of the 1967 Nobel Prize for Literature and a Daily Bleed Saint 2003-2004

Participated in the 1920 uprising against Dictator Cabrera. When the US overthrew the government in 1954 and installed their puppet Castillo Armas, Asturias lived in exile in Chile with the poet Pablo Neruda.

His writings combine the mysticism of Maya with epic impulse toward social protest. His masterpiece, Hombres de maíz (1949; Men of Maize), depicts the seemingly irreversible poverty of the Indian peasant.

External links

• http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/asturias.htm
• http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1967/asturias-bio.html