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FAMOUS LATIN AMERICAN LITERATURE NOBEL PRIZEWINNERS

Miguel Angel Asturias (October 19, 1899, Guatemala City, Guatemala - June 9, 1974, Spain) He wasawarded the 1952 the Prix du Meilleur Livre trangerPrize in Paris, France and the 1967 Nobel Prize inLiterature. He was the first child of Ernesto Asturias Girn, a lawyer and judge, and Mara Rosales de

Asturias, a schoolteacher who was the daughter of a colonel. Asturias's father opposed the dictatorshipof Manuel Estrada Cabrera. His parents were quite persecuted. His father lost his job, and he and hisfamily were forced to move in 1905 to one of his grandparents house farm in Salam. It was here that

Asturias first came into contact with Guatemala's indigenous people; his nanny, Lola Reyes, was ayoung indigenous woman who told him stories of their myths and legends that would later have a great

influence on his work. In 1908, his family returned to Guatemala. Asturias began writing as a student and wrote the firstdraft of a story that would later become his novel The President . In 1922, Asturias spent a year studying medicine

before switching to the faculty of law at theUniversidad de San Carlos de Guatemala in Guatemala. After he finishedhis law studies, he went to study to Paris at the Sorbonne where he finished his novel The President . In 1949, Asturiasserved as an ambassador to Mexicowhere he wrote his masterpiece Men of Maize . He believed that the developmentin Guatemala depended on better integration of indigenous communities and a more equal distribution of wealth in thecountry. When the government of President Jacobo Arbenz fell in 1954, Asturias went into exile. In 1966, democraticallelected President Julio Csar Mndez Montenegro achieved power and Asturias was given back his Guatemalancitizenship.

Octavio Paz Lozano ( March 31, 1914, Mexico City, Mexico- April 19, 1998, Mexico City) Mexican poet,essayist and diplomat and writer. He was awarded the 1981 Miguel de Cervantes Prize, the 1982National Prize of Arts and Sciences in Mexico and the 1990 Nobel Prize in Literature. Paz was born toOctavio Paz Solrzano and Josefina Lozano. His father was an active supporter of the Revolutionagainst the Daz regime. Paz was introduced to literature early in his life through the influence of hisgrandfather's library. He used to read lots of books of classic Mexican and European literature. As ateenager in 1931, under the influence of D. H. Lawrence, Paz published his first poems, includingCabellera . Two years later, at the age of 19, he published Luna "Wild Moon", a collection of poems. I1937, Paz abandoned his law studies and left for Yucatn to work at a school in Mrida for sons of

peasants and workers. In 1943, Paz received a fellowshipand began studying at the University of California at Berkelein the United States. Two years later, he entered the Mexican diplomatic service. In 1945, he was sent to Paris, wherehe wrote The Labyr in th o f So l i tude . In 1952, he travelled to India, Tokyo and Switzerland. His early poetry wasinfluenced by Marxism, surrealism, and existentialism, as well as religions such as Buddhism and Hinduism. When hereturned to Mexico City in 1954, he wrote his great poem Suns tone which was praised as a magnificent example ofsurrealist poetry. From 1970 to 1974, he lectured the Charles Eliot Norton professorshipat Harvard University. In 1990,Paz invited several of the world's writers and intellectuals to Mexico City to discuss the collapse of communismincluding Cornelius Castoriadis, Mario Vargas Llosa and Carlos Franqui. The encounter was broadcast on Mexicantelevision.
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Material adapted from:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miguel_%C3%81ngel_Asturias http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octavio_Paz

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabriel_Garc%C3%ADa_M%C3%A1rquez http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mario_Vargas_Llosa

IMGENES

Link de Imgen de Octavio Paz http://www.cafleurebon.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/Octavio-Paz.jpg

Link de Imgen de Gabriel Garcia https://reader010.{domain}/reader010/html5/0611/5b1e4e90ce7a3/5b1e4e9

Link de imgen: https://reader010.{domain}/reader010/html5/0611/5b1e4e90ce7a3/5b1e4e92dcb98.jpg

Link Imgen Jorge Vargas https://www.stilogo.com/images/stories/Vargas_Llosa/Mario-Vargas-Llosa_x500.png
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