Alumni by University or College in Guatemala - Universidad Francisco Marroquin Alumni, Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala Alumni (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 141. Not illustrated. Chapters: Universidad Francisco Marroquin Alumni, Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala Alumni, Miguel Angel Asturias, Vinicio Cerezo, Juan Lindo, Alvaro Colom, Ramiro de Leon Carpio, Luis Bogran, Jose Matias Delgado, Dionisio de Herrera, Roberto Suazo Cordova, Jorge Serrano Elias, Antonio Jose de Irisarri, Oliverio Castaneda, Emilio Arenales Catalan, Guillermo W. Mendez, Hilda Morales Trujillo, Manuel Jose Arce, Manuel Colom Argueta, Ricardo Arjona, Mariano Galvez, Juan Mauricio Wurmser, Jaime Vinals, Miguel Rosales, Jose Joaquin Rodriguez Zeledon, Rolando Moran, David Joaquin Guzman, Rafael Espada, Prospero Fernandez Oreamuno, Jose Damian Villacorta, Vinicio Gomez, Gert Rosenthal, Henry Manne, Matilde Elena Lopez, Santiago Jose Celis, Haroldo Rodas, Carlos Navarrete Caceres, Jose Concepcion Pinto Castro, Pedro de Aycinena Y Pinol. Excerpt: Miguel Angel Asturias Rosales (October 19, 1899 June 9, 1974) was a Nobel Prizewinning Guatemalan poet, novelist, playwright, journalist and diplomat. Asturias 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. Asturias was born and raised in Guatemala. However, he lived a significant part of his life abroad. He first lived in Paris in the 1920s where he studied anthropology and Indian mythology. Some scholars such as Lourdes Royano Gutierrez view him as the first Latin American novelist to show how the study of anthropology and linguistics could affect the writing of literature (Gutierrez, Lourdes Royano. Las novelas de Miguel Angel Asturias. Valladolid: U de Vallodolid, 1993). While in Paris, Asturias also associated with the Surrealist movement, and he is credited with introducing many features of modernist styl...