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Miguel Angel Asturias was born in Guatemala city, the first child to Ernesto Asturias and Maria Rosales de Asturias
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He and his family was forced to move to the town of Salama. He started living on his grandparent's farm, it was here that Asturias first came into contact with the guatemalan indigenous people that have a great influence in his work.
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He began writing as a student and wrote the first draft of a story that would later become his novel, "El senor presidente".
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Asturias participated in the uprising against dictator Manuel Estrada Cabrera. He took an active role, such as organizing strikes in his high school and formed a group with his fellow classmates called "La generacion 20"
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His university thesis, "the social problem of the indian" was published.
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Asturias developed a deep concern for mayan cutlure, therefore he worked to translate the mayan sacred text, the Popol Vuh, into spanish.
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Asturias published his first novel "Leyendas de Guatemala" and received the Sylla Monsegur Prize for tjhe french translations of "Leyendas de Guatemala".
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Asturias wrote several volumes of poems, the first being his Sonetos (Sonnets)
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Asturias started his diplomatic career, continuing to write while serving in several countries in Central and South America
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His novel "El Senor Presidente" was published
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His novel "Men of maze" was published, during his time as ambassador to Mexico.
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He received the Nobel Prize in Literature
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Before Asturias died, he helped found the Popular University of Guatemala and spent his last years in Madrid. He is buried in Pere Laichese Cemetery in Paris.
