Miguel Angel Asturias

Miguel Angel Asturias was a Guatemalan novelist, a diplomat, and a Nobel Laureate. He is the author of several books, including Hombres de maiz and El Senor Presidente , and the cotranslator of Popol Vuh and other sacred Mayan texts. Kelly Washbourne is an associate professor of Spanish translation in the Institute for Applied Linguistics at Kent State University and the author of Manual of Spanish-English Translation . He has also translated literary works for Oxford s Library of Latin...See more

Miguel Angel Asturias was a Guatemalan novelist, a diplomat, and a Nobel Laureate. He is the author of several books, including Hombres de maiz and El Senor Presidente , and the cotranslator of Popol Vuh and other sacred Mayan texts. Kelly Washbourne is an associate professor of Spanish translation in the Institute for Applied Linguistics at Kent State University and the author of Manual of Spanish-English Translation . He has also translated literary works for Oxford s Library of Latin America, University of North Carolina Press s Latin America in Translation, the University of Texas Press s Pan-American Literature in Translation series, and the Modern Language Association s Texts and Translations series. He lives in Kent, Ohio. Gerald Martin is a former Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Modern Languages at the University of Pittsburgh and the author of Journeys Through the Labyrinth: Latin American Fiction in the Twentieth Century ." See less