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Miguel Ángel Asturias

1899 - 1974

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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 Guatemala. Asturias was born and raised in Guatemala though he lived a significant part of his adult life abroad. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Miguel Ángel Asturias has received more than 435,584 page views. His biography is available in 86 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 81 in 2019). Miguel Ángel Asturias is the 481st most popular writer (up from 555th in 2019), the most popular biography from Guatemala and the most popular Guatemalan Writer.

Miguel Ángel Asturias is most famous for his novel "El Señor Presidente," which won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1967.

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Notable Works

El señor presidente
1952
Hombres de maíz
1949
Leyendas de Guatemala
1930
Week-end en Guatemala
1956
El Señor Presidente
1948
Viento fuerte
1950

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Miguel Ángel Asturias ranks 481 out of 7,302. Before him are Verner von Heidenstam, Natsume Sōseki, Bohumil Hrabal, Ze'ev Jabotinsky, Martial, and W. B. Yeats. After him are Maria Leopoldina of Austria, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Luo Guanzhong, Edward Said, Vuk Karadžić, and Charles, Duke of Orléans.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1899, Miguel Ángel Asturias ranks 17. Before him are Humphrey Bogart, László Bíró, Fred Astaire, Duke Ellington, Francis Poulenc, and Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna of Russia. After him are Adnan Menderes, Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski, Béla Guttmann, Albert Claude, Paul Hermann Müller, and Erich Kästner. Among people deceased in 1974, Miguel Ángel Asturias ranks 17. Before him are U Thant, Baldur von Schirach, Duke Ellington, Virginia Apgar, Imre Lakatos, and Julius Evola. After him are Rudolf Dassler, David Oistrakh, Jacob L. Moreno, Darius Milhaud, Erich Kästner, and Zalman Shazar.

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In Guatemala

Among people born in Guatemala, Miguel Ángel Asturias ranks 1 out of 44. After him are Jacobo Árbenz (1913), Rigoberta Menchú (1959), Efraín Ríos Montt (1926), Carlos Castillo Armas (1914), Alejandro Giammattei (1956), Juan José Arévalo (1904), Jorge Ubico (1878), Rafael Carrera (1814), Otto Pérez Molina (1950), Álvaro Colom (1951), and Oscar Isaac (1979).

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Among WRITERS In Guatemala

Among writers born in Guatemala, Miguel Ángel Asturias ranks 1. 

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