"for his vivid literary achievement, deep-rooted in the national traits and traditions of Indian peoples of Latin America."
Date
19 October 1967 (announcement)
10 December 1967 (ceremony)
Location
Stockholm, Sweden
Presented by
Swedish Academy
First awarded
1901
Website
Official website
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The 1967 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to the Guatemalan writer Miguel Ángel Asturias (1899–1974) "for his vivid literary achievement, deep-rooted in the national traits and traditions of Indian peoples of Latin America."[1] He is the first Guatemalan and the second Latin American author to receive the prize after the Chilean poet Gabriela Mistral won in 1945.[2]
^The Nobel Prize in Literature 1967 nobelprize.org
^"Guatemalan Author Of Anti-U.S. Works Wins Nobel Prize; GUATEMALAN POET WINS NOBEL PRIZE". New York Times. 20 October 1967. Retrieved 21 May 2021.
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