Nobel Laureate Miguel Angel Asturias’ Ashes to Return Home to Guatemala, 52 Years After His Death
French authorities returned the ashes after an exhumation and cremation, and Guatemala will place them in a monument with four days of tributes.
- Nobel laureate Miguel Angel Asturias' remains arrived in Guatemala City on Thursday, half a century after his death, fulfilling the writer's wish to return to his homeland.
- Asturias became a critical voice in 20th-century Latin American literature after being stripped of his citizenship for supporting the government of Jacobo Arbenz, overthrown in a US-backed coup in 1954.
- French authorities returned the ashes to the family earlier this month after descendants finally agreed when President Bernardo Arevalo came to power in 2024, ending years of refusals.
- Guatemala's Ministry of Culture organized four days of tributes for the writer, and his ashes will be placed in a monument at the Miguel Angel Asturias Cultural Center on Sunday.
- "We decided it was time," grandson Sandino Asturias said, calling the return an act of historical justice aligned with Arevalo's reformist government reshaping Guatemala's political landscape.
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Nobel laureate Miguel Angel Asturias' ashes to return home to Guatemala, 52 years after his death
GUATEMALA CITY, Nov 12 - The remains of Nobel laureate Miguel Angel Asturias are set to arrive in his native Guatemala on Thursday half a century after his death, fulfilling the writer's wish and closing a story marked by both triumph and exile. Read more at straitstimes.com.
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