Miguel Ángel Asturias Facts for Kids

Quick facts for kids Miguel Angel Asturias

Born	(1899-10-19)October 19, 1899 Guatemala City, Guatemala
Died	June 9, 1974(1974-06-09) (aged 74) Madrid, Spain
Occupation	Novelist
Nationality	Guatemalan
Genre	Surrealism, dictator novel
Notable works	El Señor Presidente, Men of Maize
Notable awards	Nobel Prize in Literature 1967

Miguel Ángel Asturias Rosales (October 19, 1899 - June 9, 1974) was a writer and diplomat from Guatemala. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1967 for his Banana Trilogy. He also wrote El Hombre que lo tenía todo todo todo.

He was very important for literature in his country.

Winners of Nobel Prize in Literature

1901 – 1925	Prudhomme (1901) · Mommsen (1902) · Bjørnson (1903) · F. Mistral / Echegaray (1904) · Sienkiewicz (1905) · Carducci (1906) · Kipling (1907) · Eucken (1908) · Lagerlöf (1909) · Heyse (1910) · Maeterlinck (1911) · Hauptmann (1912) · Tagore (1913) · No award (1914) · Rolland (1915) · Heidenstam (1916) · Gjellerup / Pontoppidan (1917) · No award (1918) · Spitteler (1919) · Hamsun (1920) · France (1921) · Benavente (1922) · Yeats (1923) · Reymont (1924) · Shaw (1925)

1926 – 1950	Deledda (1926) · Bergson (1927) · Undset (1928) · Mann (1929) · Lewis (1930) · Karlfeldt (1931) · Galsworthy (1932) · Bunin (1933) · Pirandello (1934) · No award (1935) · O'Neill (1936) · Martin du Gard (1937) · Buck (1938) · Sillanpää (1939) · No awards (World War II) · Jensen (1944) · G. Mistral (1945) · Hesse (1946) · Gide (1947) · Eliot (1948) · Faulkner (1949) · Russell (1950)

1951 – 1975	Lagerkvist (1951) · Mauriac (1952) · Churchill (1953) · Hemingway (1954) · Laxness (1955) · Jiménez (1956) · Camus (1957) · Pasternak (1958) · Quasimodo (1959) · Perse (1960) · Andrić (1961) · Steinbeck (1962) · Seferis (1963) · Sartre (1964) · Sholokhov (1965) · Agnon / Sachs (1966) · Asturias (1967) · Kawabata (1968) · Beckett (1969) · Solzhenitsyn (1970) · Neruda (1971) · Böll (1972) · White (1973) · Johnson / Martinson (1974) · Montale (1975)

1976 – 2000	Bellow (1976) · Aleixandre (1977) · Singer (1978) · Elytis (1979) · Miłosz (1980) · Canetti (1981) · García Márquez (1982) · Golding (1983) · Seifert (1984) · Simon (1985) · Soyinka (1986) · Brodsky (1987) · Mahfouz (1988) · Cela (1989) · Paz (1990) · Gordimer (1991) · Walcott (1992) · Morrison (1993) · Ōe (1994) · Heaney (1995) · Szymborska (1996) · Fo (1997) · Saramago (1998) · Grass (1999) · Gao (2000)

2001 – present	Naipaul (2001) · Kertész (2002) · Coetzee (2003) · Jelinek (2004) · Pinter (2005) · Pamuk (2006) · Lessing (2007) · Le Clézio (2008) · Müller (2009) · Vargas Llosa (2010) · Tranströmer (2011) · Mo (2012) · Munro (2013) · Modiano (2014) · Alexievich (2015) · Dylan (2016) · Ishiguro (2017) · No formal award Condé (New Academy Prize) (2018) · Tokarczuk (2018) · Handke (2019) · Glück (2020)

Cannes Film Festival jury presidents

1946-1975	Georges Huisman (1946) Georges Huisman (1947) Georges Huisman (1949) André Maurois (1951) Maurice Genevoix (1952) Jean Cocteau (1953) Jean Cocteau (1954) Marcel Pagnol (1955) Maurice Lehmann (1956) André Maurois (1957) Marcel Achard (1958) Marcel Achard (1959) Georges Simenon (1960) Jean Giono (1961) Tetsurō Furukaki (1962) Armand Salacrou (1963) Fritz Lang (1964) Olivia de Havilland (1965) Sophia Loren (1966) Alessandro Blasetti (1967) André Chamson (1968) Luchino Visconti (1969) Miguel Ángel Asturias (1970) Michèle Morgan (1971) Joseph Losey (1972) Ingrid Bergman (1973) René Clair (1974) Jeanne Moreau (1975)

1975-2000	Tennessee Williams (1976) Roberto Rossellini (1977) Alan J. Pakula (1978) Françoise Sagan (1979) Kirk Douglas (1980) Jacques Deray (1981) Giorgio Strehler (1982) William Styron (1983) Dirk Bogarde (1984) Miloš Forman (1985) Sydney Pollack (1986) Yves Montand (1987) Ettore Scola (1988) Wim Wenders (1989) Bernardo Bertolucci (1990) Roman Polanski (1991) Gérard Depardieu (1992) Louis Malle (1993) Clint Eastwood (1994) Jeanne Moreau (1995) Francis Ford Coppola (1996) Isabelle Adjani (1997) Martin Scorsese (1998) David Cronenberg (1999) Luc Besson (2000)

2001-present	Liv Ullmann (2001) David Lynch (2002) Patrice Chéreau (2003) Quentin Tarantino (2004) Emir Kusturica (2005) Wong Kar-wai (2006) Stephen Frears (2007) Sean Penn (2008) Isabelle Huppert (2009) Tim Burton (2010) Robert De Niro (2011) Nanni Moretti (2012) Steven Spielberg (2013) Jane Campion (2014) Joel Coen and Ethan Coen (2015) George Miller (2016)

Images for kids

Map of Guatemala
A translation of El Señor Presidente, one of Asturias's best-known works.
Maya vase depicting a lord of the underworld stripped of clothes and headgear by the young maize divinity.
Bust of Miguel Ángel Asturias. Paseo de los Poetas, Rosedal de Palermo, Parque Tres de Febrero, Buenos Aires.

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