Miguel Ángel Asturias

Miguel Ángel Asturias (1899–1974) was a Guatemalan novelist, poet and diplomat who received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1967. His novel El Señor Presidente, published in 1946, portrayed life under the dictatorship of Manuel Estrada Cabrera, while Men of Maize and his banana trilogy drew on Maya myth and attacked the power of the United Fruit Company. He spent long periods in exile and died in Madrid.