Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala Alumni - Miguel Angel Asturias, Vinicio Cerezo, Juan Lindo, Alvaro Colom, Ramiro de Leon Carpio (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 30. Chapters: Miguel Angel Asturias, Vinicio Cerezo, Juan Lindo, Alvaro Colom, Ramiro de Leon Carpio, Dionisio de Herrera, Luis Bogran, Jose Matias Delgado, Roberto Suazo Cordova, Jorge Serrano Elias, Antonio Jose de Irisarri, Oliverio Castaneda, Manuel Colom Argueta, Emilio Arenales Catalan, Manuel Jose Arce, Ricardo Arjona, Hilda Morales Trujillo, Jaime Vinals, Rafael Espada, Enrique R. Falabella, Mariano Galvez, Rolando Moran, David Joaquin Guzman, Jose Joaquin Rodriguez Zeledon, Carlos Navarrete Caceres, Jose Damian Villacorta, Prospero Fernandez Oreamuno, Vinicio Gomez, Gert Rosenthal, Frank William La Rue, Matilde Elena Lopez, Santiago Jose Celis, Haroldo Rodas, Jose Concepcion Pinto Castro, Pedro de Aycinena y Pinol. Excerpt: Miguel Angel Asturias Rosales (October 19, 1899 - June 9, 1974) was a Nobel Prize-winning 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 style into Latin American letters. In this way, he is an important precursor of the Latin American Boom of the 1960s and 1970s. One of ...