MIGUEL ANGEL ASTURIAS.
A biography of Miguel Angel Asturias, a Nobel Prize winner for Literature, is presented. He was born on October 19, 1899 in Guatemala and studied at the University of San Carlos. He was active in protest movements as a student wherein they helped overthrow dictatorship. He founded the Universidad Po...
| Published in: | Giants in Their Field: An Introduction to the Nobel Prizes in Literature pp. 401 - 404 |
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| Format: | Biography |
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Digitalia Publishing Corp.
1993
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| Summary: | A biography of Miguel Angel Asturias, a Nobel Prize winner for Literature, is presented. He was born on October 19, 1899 in Guatemala and studied at the University of San Carlos. He was active in protest movements as a student wherein they helped overthrow dictatorship. He founded the Universidad Popular de Guatemala to provide evening classes for workers in 1922. He then traveled Europe to study and to improve his poetic prowess wherein he made several contributions in poetry. |
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