← Miguel Angel AsturiasStrong Windby Miguel Angel AsturiasNovel depicting foreign corporate exploitation and peasant struggle in Central AmericaFind on Amazon↗About the authorMiguel Angel AsturiasGuatemalan 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.More by Miguel Angel AsturiasEl 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→Weekend in Guatemala→