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Miguel Ángel Asturias
Miguel Ángel Asturias Rosales 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 Guatemala.
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culture · Guatemalan writer and poet-diplomat (1899-1974) · poet · writer · diplomat · journalist · politician · poet lawyer · translator · lawyer · also Miguel Ángel Asturias, Miguel Ángel Asturias Rosales pachan, Asturias
Born 19 October 1899 · Died 9 June 1974 · Q75603
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1974· 3 entries
Died 1974-06-09.
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His home country acknowledged his contribution to Guatemalan literature by establishing literary awards and scholarships in his name
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They remained married until Asturias' death in 1974.
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1972· 2 entries
Awarded honorary doctor of the University of Western Brittany (1972).
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Awarded honorary doctorate of the University of Reims (1972).
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1967· 4 entries
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature — for his vivid literary achievement, deep-rooted in the national traits and traditions of Indian peoples of Latin America.
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Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature (1967).
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English translations of Mulata de Tal were published in Boston
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His work helped bring attention to the importance of indigenous cultures, especially those of his native Guatemala
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1966· 3 entries
Democratically elected President Julio César Méndez Montenegro achieved power and Asturias was given back his Guatemalan citizenship
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Asturias was awarded the Soviet Union's Lenin Peace Prize
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Won the Soviet Union's Lenin Peace Prize
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1956· 1 entry
Asturias dedicated his novel Week-end en Guatemala to his wife, Blanca, after it was published in 1956.
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1954· 1 entry
Went to live in the Argentinian capital of Buenos Aires
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1950· 1 entry
1954, and 1960 that revolve around the exploitation of indigenous farm laborers and the monopoly presence of the United Fruit Company in Guatemala
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1940· 1 entry
In Mexico, stands out, as well as his relationships with Giuseppe Bellini, an Italian scholar, and Cristóbal Humberto Ibarra, a Salvadoran writer for whom he wrote the preface to the book Cuentos de sima y cima
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1933· 2 entries
Returned to Guatemala after ten years in Paris
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But remained unpublished until 1946, where it was privately released in Mexico
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1931· 1 entry
Asturias was unable to publish the book in Guatemala for thirteen years because of the strict censorship laws of the Ubico government, a dictatorship that ruled Guatemala from 1931 to 1944.
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1930· 1 entry
Asturias published his first novel Leyendas de Guatemala
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1926· 1 entry
Finished a translation of the Popol Vuh, the sacred book of the Mayas
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1925· 1 entry
Worked to translate the Mayan sacred text, the Popol Vuh, into Spanish, a project which he spent 40 years on
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1923· 1 entry
And received the Gálvez Prize for his thesis on Indian problems
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1922· 1 entry
Asturias and other students founded the Popular University, a community project whereby "the middle class was encouraged to contribute to the general welfare by teaching free courses to the underprivileged
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1920· 1 entry
Asturias participated in the uprising against the dictator Manuel Estrada Cabrera
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1908· 1 entry
When Asturias was nine, his family returned to the suburbs of Guatemala City
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1905· 2 entries
To the town of Salamá, the departmental capital of Baja Verapaz, where Miguel Ángel Asturias lived on his grandparents' farm
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When the writer was six years old, the Asturias family moved to the house of Asturias' grandparents, where they lived a more comfortable lifestyle
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1904· 1 entry
Which, in his capacity as judge, Asturias Sr
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1899· 1 entry
Born 1899-10-19.
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