Miguel Angel Asturias

MIGUEL ANGEL ASTURIAS d1974. Nobel Prize-winning Guatemalan poet-diplomat, novelist, playwright and journalist. He helped establish Latin American literature's contribution to mainstream Western culture and at the same time drew attention to the importance of indigenous cultures, especially those of his native Guatemala. In 1966, he won the Soviet Union's Lenin Peace Prize. The following year he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, becoming the second Latin American author to receive this honor. He spent his final years in Madrid where he died at the age of 74 on June 9th 1974