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Miguel Angel Asturias (October 19, 1899, Guatemala City, Guatemala - June 9, 1974, Spain) He was

awarded the 1952 the Prix du Meilleur Livre tranger Prize in Paris, France and the 1967 Nobel
Prize in Literature. He was the first child of Ernesto Asturias Girn, a lawyer and judge, and Mara
Rosales de Asturias, a schoolteacher who was the daughter of a colonel. Asturias's father opposed
the dictatorship of Manuel Estrada Cabrera. His parents were quite persecuted. His father lost his
job, and he and his family were forced to move in 1905 to one of his grandparents house farm in
Salam. It was here that Asturias first came into contact with Guatemala's indigenous people; his
nanny, Lola Reyes, was a young indigenous woman who told him stories of their myths and
legends that would later have a great influence on his work. In 1908, his family returned to
Guatemala. Asturias began writing as a student and wrote the first draft of a story that would later
become his novel The President. In 1922, Asturias spent a year studying medicine before switching
to the faculty of law at the Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala in Guatemala. After he
finished his law studies, he went to study to Paris at the Sorbonne where he finished his novel The
President. In 1949, Asturias served as an ambassador to Mexico where he wrote his masterpiece
Men of Maize. He believed that the development in Guatemala depended on better integration of
indigenous communities and a more equal distribution of wealth in the country. When the
government of President Jacobo Arbenz fell in 1954, Asturias went into exile. In 1966,
democratically elected President Julio Csar Mndez Montenegro achieved power and Asturias
was given back his Guatemalan citizenship.
Miguel ngel Asturias (19 de octubre de 1899, Ciudad de Guatemala, Guatemala - 09 de junio
1974, Espaa) Fue galardonado con el Premio de la du Meilleur Livre tranger Premio 1952 en
Pars, Francia y el Premio Nobel de Literatura en 1967. Fue el primer hijo de Ernesto Asturias
Girn, abogado y juez, y Mara Rosales de Asturias, un maestro de escuela que era la hija de un
coronel. El padre de Asturias se opuso a la dictadura de Manuel Estrada Cabrera. Sus padres
fueron muy perseguidos. Su padre perdi su trabajo, y l y su familia se vieron obligados a
trasladarse en 1905 a una de las casa de la granja de sus abuelos en Salam. Fue aqu que Asturias
lleg por primera vez en contacto con los pueblos indgenas de Guatemala; su niera, Lola Reyes,
era una joven indgena que le contaba historias de sus mitos y leyendas que ms tarde tienen una
gran influencia en su obra. En 1908, su familia regres a Guatemala. Asturias comenzaron a
escribir cuando era estudiante y escribi el primer borrador de una historia que ms tarde se
convertira en su novela El Presidente. En 1922, Asturias pas un ao estudiando medicina antes
de cambiar a la facultad de derecho en la Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala en Guatemala.
Despus de terminar sus estudios de derecho, se fue a estudiar a Pars, en la Sorbona, donde
termin su novela El Presidente. En 1949, Asturias sirvi como embajador en Mxico, donde
escribi su obra maestra Hombres de Maz. l crea que el desarrollo en Guatemala dependa de
una mejor integracin de las comunidades indgenas y una distribucin ms equitativa de la
riqueza en el pas. Cuando el gobierno del presidente Jacobo Arbenz cay en 1954, Asturias fue al
exilio. En 1966, elegido democrticamente presidente Julio Csar Mndez Montenegro alcanz el
poder y Asturias se le dio la espalda a su ciudadana guatemalteca.

Octavio Paz Lozano ( March 31, 1914, Mexico City, Mexico- April 19, 1998, Mexico City) Mexican
poet, essayist and diplomat and writer. He was awarded the 1981 Miguel de Cervantes Prize, the
1982 National Prize of Arts and Sciences in Mexico and the 1990 Nobel Prize in Literature. Paz was
born to Octavio Paz Solrzano and Josefina Lozano. His father was an active supporter of the
Revolutionagainst the Daz regime. Paz was introduced to literature early in his life through the
influence of his grandfather's library. He used to read lots of books of classic Mexican and
European literature. As a teenager in 1931, under the influence of D. H. Lawrence, Paz published
his first poems, including Cabellera. Two years later, at the age of 19, he published Luna "Wild
Moon", a collection of poems. In 1937, Paz abandoned his law studies and left for Yucatn to work
at a school in Mrida for sons of peasants and workers. In 1943, Paz received a fellowship and
began studying at the University of California at Berkeleyin the United States. Two years later, he
entered the Mexican diplomatic service. In 1945, he was sent to Paris, where he wrote The
Labyrinth of Solitude. In 1952, he travelled to India, Tokyo and Switzerland. His early poetry was
influenced by Marxism, surrealism, and existentialism, as well as religions such as Buddhism and
Hinduism. When he returned to Mexico City in 1954, he wrote his great poem Sunstone which was
praised as a magnificent example of surrealist poetry. From 1970 to 1974, he lectured the Charles
Eliot Norton professorship at Harvard University. In 1990, Paz invited several of the world's writers
and intellectuals to Mexico City to discuss the collapse of communism, including Cornelius
Castoriadis, Mario Vargas Llosa and Carlos Franqui. The encounter was broadcast on Mexican
television.
Octavio Paz Lozano (31 de marzo de 1914, Ciudad de Mxico, Mxico-19 de abril 1998, Ciudad de
Mxico) Poetas de Mxico, ensayista y diplomtico y criterios. Fue galardonado con el Premio
Miguel de Cervantes 1981, el Premio Nacional de las Artes y las Ciencias de Mxico 1982 y el
Premio Nobel de 1990 en la literatura. Paz Octavio Paz naci para Solrzano y Josefina Lozano. Su
padre era el turno bide DEL Revolutionagainst el rgimen de Daz. Paz se introdujo a la literatura
temprana en su vida a travs de la influencia de la biblioteca de su abuelo. Se utiliza para leer un
montn de libros de la literatura mexicana y europea clsica. A medida que el adolescente en
1931, bajo la influencia de DH Lawrence, Paz public por primera vez sus poemas, incluyendo
Cabellera. Ocho aos de la tierra, a la edad de 19, public Luna "Wild Moon", la coleccin de
poemas. En 1937, Paz abandon sus estudios de derecho y se fue a Yucatn para trabajar en la
escuela en Mrida para Hijos de ancho de banda y los trabajadores. En 1943, Paz Recibidas Becas y
comenz a estudiar en la Universidad de California en Berkeleyin los Estados Unidos. Ocho aos de
la tierra, las coberturas interesan en el servicio diplomtico mexicano. En 1945, fue enviado a
Pars, donde escribi El laberinto de la soledad. En 1952, viaj a la India, Suiza y Tokio. Su pupilo
temprana poesa influenciada por el marxismo, el surrealismo y el existencialismo, as como las
religiones como el budismo y el hinduismo TALES. Cuando regres a la Ciudad de Mxico en 1954,
escribi su gran poema Piedra del Sol que la sala un precio como el ejemplo magnfico de la poesa
surrealista. De 1970 a 1974, la ctedra Charles Eliot Norton dio una conferencia en la Universidad
de Harvard. En 1990, Paz invit a varios de los intelectuales del mundo y la tasa ESCRITORES
Ciudad de Mxico Para discutir el colapso del comunismo, incluyendo Cornelius Castoriadis, Mario
Vargas Llosa y Carlos Franqui. La sala de encuentro transmitido por la televisin mexicana.

Gabriel Jos de la Concordia Garca Mrquez (March 6, 1927, Aracataca, Colombia - April 17, 2014,
Mexico City) Colombian novelist, short-story writer, film critic, screenwriter and journalist, known
affectionately as Gabo throughout Latin America. He was awarded the 1969 the Prix du Meilleur
Livre tranger Prize in Paris, France, the 1972 Romulo Gallegos Prize and the 1982 Nobel Prize in
Literature. His father Gabriel Eligio Garca was a pharmacist. His mother, Luisa Santiaga Marquez,
was the daughter of a liberal veteran Coronel of the Thousand Days War, whom Garca Mrquez
described as his "umbilical cord with history and reality," for being an excellent storyteller. He
enjoyed his grandmother's unique way of telling stories. No matter how fantastic or improbable
her statements, she always delivered them as if they were the irrefutable truth. His parents had to
leave Gabito and his brother when his father became a pharmacist in Barranquilla.Since Garca
Mrquez's parents were more or less strangers to him for the first few years of his life, his
grandparents influenced his early development very strongly. His grandfather used to teach him
lessons from the dictionary and take him to the circus each year. Garca Mrquez began his career
as a journalist while studying law at the National University of Colombia. After the so-called
"Bogotazo" in 1948, bloody riots that erupted on April 9 because of the assassination of the
popular leader Jorge Gaitan, the university closed indefinitely and his pension was burned. Garca
Mrquez moved to the University of Cartagena. He pursued a self-directed education that resulted
in his leaving law school for a career in journalism. From early on, he showed no inhibitions in his
criticism of Colombian and foreign politics. His literary works such as A Hundred Years of Solitude,
Love in the Time of Colera, No one writes to the Colonel among others labeled as magic realism,
which uses magical elements and events in otherwise ordinary and realistic situations. Garcia
Marquezs imagination produces a visual image; that is why many of his histories have been
adapted to films, the television series and even to form opera.
Gabriel Jos de la Concordia Garca Mrquez (March 6, 1927, Aracataca, Colombia - April 17, 2014,
Mexico City) Colombian novelist, short-story writer, film critic, screenwriter and journalist, known
affectionately as Gabo throughout Latin America. He was awarded the 1969 the Prix du Meilleur
Livre tranger Prize in Paris, France, the 1972 Romulo Gallegos Prize and the 1982 Nobel Prize in
Literature. His father Gabriel Eligio Garca was a pharmacist. His mother, Luisa Santiaga Marquez,
was the daughter of a liberal veteran Coronel of the Thousand Days War, whom Garca Mrquez
described as his "umbilical cord with history and reality," for being an excellent storyteller. He
enjoyed his grandmother's unique way of telling stories. No matter how fantastic or improbable
her statements, she always delivered them as if they were the irrefutable truth. His parents had to
leave Gabito and his brother when his father became a pharmacist in Barranquilla.Since Garca
Mrquez's parents were more or less strangers to him for the first few years of his life, his
grandparents influenced his early development very strongly. His grandfather used to teach him
lessons from the dictionary and take him to the circus each year. Garca Mrquez began his career
as a journalist while studying law at the National University of Colombia. After the so-called
"Bogotazo" in 1948, bloody riots that erupted on April 9 because of the assassination of the
popular leader Jorge Gaitan, the university closed indefinitely and his pension was burned. Garca

Mrquez moved to the University of Cartagena. He pursued a self-directed education that resulted
in his leaving law school for a career in journalism. From early on, he showed no inhibitions in his
criticism of Colombian and foreign politics. His literary works such as A Hundred Years of Solitude,
Love in the Time of Colera, No one writes to the Colonel among others labeled as magic realism,
which uses magical elements and events in otherwise ordinary and realistic situations. Garcia
Marquezs imagination produces a visual image; that is why many of his histories have been
adapted to films, the television series and even to form opera.
Jorge Mario Pedro Vargas Llosa (March 28, 1936, Arequipa, Peru) Peruvian writer, politician,
journalist, essayist and a college professor. He was awarded the 1967 Romulo Gallego Prize, the
1994 Miguel de Cervantes Prize and the 2010 Nobel Prize in Literature. Upon announcing the 2010
Nobel Prize in Literature, the Swedish Academy said it had been given to Vargas Llosa "for his
cartography of structures of power and his trenchant images of the individual's resistance, revolt,
and defeat". His maternal family, the Llosas, was sustained by his grandfather, who managed a
cotton farm. As a child, Vargas Llosa was told that his father had diedhis mother and her family
did not want to explain that his parents had separated. In 1946, at the age of ten, he moved to
Lima and met his father for the first time.[15] His parents re-established their relationship and
lived in Magdalena del Mar. When Vargas Llosa was fourteen, his father sent him to the Leoncio
Prado Military Academy in Lima. At the age of 16, before his graduation, Vargas Llosa began
working as an amateur journalist for local newspaper. In 1953, during the government of Manuel
A. Odra, Vargas Llosa enrolled in Lima's National University of San Marcos, the oldest university of
the Americas, to study law and literature. Upon his graduation from the National University of San
Marcos in 1958, he received a scholarship to study at the Complutense University of Madrid in
Spain.Vargas Llosa rose to fame in the 1960s with novels such as The Time of the Hero and The
City and the Dogs, The Green House and the monumental Conversation in the Cathedral. In 1971,
Vargas Llosa published Garca Mrquez: Story of a Deicidewhich was his doctoral thesis for the
Complutense University of Madrid. He writes prolifically across an array of literary genres,
including literary criticism and journalism. His novels include comedies, murder mysteries,
historical novels, and political thrillers. Several, such as Captain Pantoja and the Special Service
and Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter have been adapted as feature films.

United States President Barack Obama released a statement on Thursday lamenting the death of
Colombias celebrated writer Gabriel Garcia Marquez who passed away at the age of 87.
President Obama described Garcia Marquez as a great visionary and added that he has
beenone of [my] favorite writers since I was young.
Growing up on the gritty streets of Hoboken, New Jersey, made Frank Sinatra determined to work
hard to get ahead. Starting out as a saloon singer in musty little dives (he carried his own P.A.
system), he eventually got work as a band singer, first with The Hoboken Four, then with Harry
James and then Tommy Dorsey. With the help of George Evans (Sinatra's genius press agent), his
image was shaped into that of a street thug and punk who was saved by his first wife, Nancy
Barbato.

Although his presidency is barely a week old, some of Mr. Obamas work habits are already
becoming clear. He shows up at the Oval Office shortly before 9 in the morning, roughly two
hours later than his early-to-bed, early-to-rise predecessor. Mr. Obama likes to have his workout
weights and cardio first thing in the morning, at 6:45. (Mr. Bush slipped away to exercise
midday.)
He reads several papers, eats breakfast with his family and helps pack his daughters, Malia, 10,
and Sasha, 7, off to school before making the 30-second commute downstairs a definite perk
for a man trying to balance work and family life. He eats dinner with his family, then often returns
to work; aides have seen him in the Oval Office as late as 10 p.m., reading briefing papers for the
next day.
The following is from Francis Darwin's reminiscences of his father. It summarizes a typical day in
Darwin's middle and later years, when he had developed a rigid routine that seldom changed,
even when there were visitors in the house.
7 am Rose and took a short walk.
7:45 a.m. Breakfast alone
89:30 a.m. Worked in his study; he considered this his best working time.
9:3010:30 a.m. Went to drawing-room and read his letters, followed by reading aloud of family
letters.
12 or 12:15 p.m. Returned to study, which period he considered the end of his working day.
12 noon Walk, starting with visit to greenhouse, then round the sandwalk, the number of times
depending on his health, usually alone or with a dog.
12:45 p.m. Lunch with whole family, which was his main meal of the day. After lunch read The
Times and answered his letters.
3 p.m. Rested in his bedroom on the sofa and smoked a cigarette, listened to a novel or other
light literature read by ED [Emma Darwin, his wife].
4 p.m. Walked, usually round sandwalk, sometimes farther afield and sometimes in company.
4:305:30 p.m. Worked in study, clearing up matters of the day.
6 p.m. Rested again in bedroom with ED reading aloud.
7.30 p.m. Light high tea while the family dined. In late years never stayed in the dining room with
the men, but retired to the drawing-room with the ladies. If no guests were present, he played
two games of backgammon with ED, usually followed by reading to himself, then ED played the
piano, followed by reading aloud.
10 p.m. Left the drawing-room and usually in bed by 10:30, but slept badly. Even when guests
were present, half an hour of conversation at a time was all that he could stand, because it
exhausted him.

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