| Birth: | Oct. 19, 1899 | | Death: | Jun. 9, 1974 | 
Author. Recipient of the 1967 Nobel Prize. His novels, many of them reflect Mayan Indian influences, include "El Senor Presidente" (1963), "Hombres de Maiz" (1949), and a trilogy on the foreign exploitation of the banana trade. In the Guatemalan civil service from 1946, he was ambassador to France from 1966 to 1970. He was awarded the Lenin Peace Prize in 1966.
Search Amazon for Miguel Asturias | | | Burial:
Cimetière du Père Lachaise
Paris
Ile-de-France Region, France
Plot: Division 10, #4 |
Maintained by: Find A Grave
Record added: Dec 19, 1999
Find A Grave Memorial# 7737 |
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