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
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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