The Reign of Terror: An Overview of Miguel Angel Asturias’s The President In his novel “The President,” Nobel Prize winning author Miguel Angel Asturias dove into the complex, political universe of a ruthless totalitarian regime. MADRID, June 9 (UPI)—Mi guel Angel Asturias, the Guatemalan novelist, poet and diplomat who won the 1967 Nobel Prize for literature, died here today in a hospital. He studied for his baccalaureate at the state high school and later took a law degree at the University of San Carlos. Miguel Ángel Asturias recibió el Premio Nobel de la Literatura en 1967. The Nobel Prize in Literature 1967 was awarded to Miguel Angel Asturias "for his vivid literary achievement, deep-rooted in the national traits and traditions of Indian peoples of Latin America". by Anders Österling Permanent Secretary of the Swedish Academy. He passionately promoted the drive and push for peaceful non-violent protesting. Cool as a cucumber is an example of what type of figure of speech? The Nobel Prize in Literature 1967 was awarded to Miguel Angel Asturias "for his vivid literary achievement, deep-rooted in the national traits and traditions of Indian peoples of Latin America". M iguel Angel Asturias (1899-1974) was born in Guatemala and spent his childhood and adolescence in his native country. 1967 Nobel Prize in Literature Presentation Speech. Myth and Social Realism in Miguel Angel Asturias LUIS LEAL ABSTRACT Miguel Angel Asturias, who received the Nobel Prize in Literature for 1967, reflects in his … He won the 1967 Nobel Prize in Literature "for his vivid literary achievement, deep-rooted in the national traits and traditions of Indian peoples of Latin America." MIGUEL ANGEL ASTURIAS (1899-1974) was a Guatemalan poet-diplomat, novelist, playwright and journalist. Asturias used strong figurative language and dream imagery to create a country plagued with corruption and The Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance Speech Martin Luther King was a powerful, memorable, eloquent and educated civil rights activist. As for me, I enter the Nobel family as the least worthy to be called among the many who could have been chosen. And this was perhaps the unspoken intention of the founder of this great family of Nobel Prize winners. Award ceremony speech Presentation Speech by Anders Österling, Permanent Secretary of the Swedish Academy. This year the Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded to the Guatemalan writer Miguel Angel Asturias, a prominent representative of the modern literature of Latin America, in which such interesting developments are now taking place. The Nobel Prize for Literature is awarded, according to the will of Swedish inventor and industrialist Alfred Bernhard Nobel, “to those who, during the preceding year, shall have conferred the greatest benefit on mankind” in the field of literature. To enlarge, through time, from generation to generation, the world of his own kin. It is conferred by the Swedish Academy in His thesis on “The Social Problem of the Indian” was published in 1923. The Nobel Prize in Literature 1967 was awarded to Miguel Angel Asturias "for his vivid literary achievement, deep-rooted in the national traits and traditions of Indian peoples of Latin America".