Miguel Ángel Asturias
1899 – 1974 · Guatemala · Literature
Nobel Prize in Literature, 1967
El Señor Presidente invented the Latin American dictator novel.
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- Gabriel García Márquez
1927 – 2014 · Literature
Men of Maize established the mythic-realist mode García Márquez perfected.
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