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Miguel Ángel Asturias

1899 - 1974

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Miguel Ángel Asturias Rosales (Spanish: [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. He first lived in Paris in the 1920s where he studied ethnology. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Miguel Ángel Asturias is the 548th most popular writer (down from 481st 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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Among writers, Miguel Ángel Asturias ranks 548 out of 7,302. Before him are Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Camille Flammarion, Augusta, Lady Gregory, Jean Paul, Enid Blyton, and Frances Hodgson Burnett. After him are Rudaki, Madame de La Fayette, Anaïs Nin, Camilo José Cela, Robert A. Heinlein, and Alice Munro.

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Among people born in 1899, Miguel Ángel Asturias ranks 22. Before him are László Bíró, Albert Claude, Iskander Mirza, Fred Astaire, Paul Hermann Müller, and Erich Kästner. After him are Béla Guttmann, Georg von Békésy, Max Theiler, Suzanne Lenglen, Adnan Menderes, and Gustav Heinemann. Among people deceased in 1974, Miguel Ángel Asturias ranks 23. Before him are Nick Drake, Julius Evola, David Oistrakh, Erich Kästner, Rudolf Dassler, and Imre Lakatos. After him are Darius Milhaud, Duke Ellington, Jacob L. Moreno, Peng Dehuai, Otto Strasser, and Satyendra Nath Bose.

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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), Álvaro Colom (1951), Rigoberta Menchú (1959), Efraín Ríos Montt (1926), Carlos Castillo Armas (1914), Jorge Ubico (1878), Rafael Carrera (1814), Juan José Arévalo (1904), Otto Pérez Molina (1950), Alejandro Giammattei (1956), and Álvaro Leonel Ramazzini Imeri (1947).

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

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