Miguel Angel Asturias
Guatemalan Nobel Prize-winning novelist who blended Mayan mythology with surrealism in El Señor Presidente and the Banana Trilogy. He was a foundational figure of Latin American magical realism.
Works
- El Señor PresidenteDystopian novel depicting authoritarian dictatorship and state control in Central America
- Men of MaizeMythic novel weaving Mayan cosmology with indigenous resistance and colonial conflict
- The Green Pope
- Strong WindNovel depicting foreign corporate exploitation and peasant struggle in Central America
- Weekend in Guatemala