ASTURIAS MIGUEL ÁNGEL

Birth and Life

Miguel Ángel Asturias

writer

Date of birth 19. 10. 1899
Country of birth Guatemala

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Work, awards, recognitions, ...
Nobel Prize in Literature in 1967

Death

Date of death 9. 6. 1974
Cemetery Père Lachaise Cemetery, Paris, France
GPS coordinates of the cemetery 48.861636, 2.393178

Details:
Plot: Division 10, #4

Summary from Wikipedia

Asturias was born and raised in Guatemala though he lived a significant part of his adult life abroad. He first lived in Paris in the 1920s where he studied ethnology. Some scholars view him as the first Latin American novelist to show how the study of anthropology and linguistics could affect the writing of literature.[1] While in Paris, Asturias also associated with the Surrealist movement, and he is credited with introducing many features of modernist style into Latin American letters. In this way, he is an important precursor of the Latin American Boom of the 1960s and 1970s.

Author of contribution: Janez, published 16. 12. 2015

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