Rows of colorful buildings line the street leading to the famous yellow Saint Catalina archway in historic Antigua Guatemala with Agua volcano looming above in the distance.

UT Benson Latin American Collection Acquires Archive of Nobel Laureate Miguel Ángel Asturias

  • Sep 9, 2020

The Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection has acquired the work of Miguel Ángel Asturias, a prolific Guatemalan writer and 1967 Nobel laureate in literature whose portrayal of Guatemala and the different peoples that live there mark the profundity of his texts.

The Benson is the third repository to house materials pertaining to Asturias’s life work. The collection features letters between Asturias and his son, poetic prose, drawings and other artifacts. 

Read the full article from the UT Libraries blog.  

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