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Born October 19, 1899 • Guatemala City • Guatemala
Died June 9, 1974 (aged 74) • Madrid • Spain
Founder “El diario del aire”
Awards And Honors Nobel Prize (1967)
Notable Works “Leyendas de Guatemala” • “Men of Maize” • “The President”

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Pablo Neruda
Chilean poet
Octavio Paz.
Octavio Paz
Mexican writer and diplomat
Gabriela Mistral, 1941.
Gabriela Mistral
Chilean poet
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Rafael Arévalo Martínez
Guatemalan writer
William Faulkner
William Faulkner
American author
French write and Nobel laureate André Gide
André Gide
French writer
Luigi Pirandello
Luigi Pirandello
Italian author
Rudyard Kipling
Rudyard Kipling
British writer
Jon Fosse
Jon Fosse
Norwegian author
Wole Soyinka, 2015
Wole Soyinka
Nigerian author
Gabriel García Márquez
Gabriel García Márquez
Colombian author
Gerhart Hauptmann
Gerhart Hauptmann
German writer
Bjørnstjerne Martinius Bjørnson.
Bjørnstjerne Martinius Bjørnson
Norwegian author
François Mauriac
François Mauriac
French author
Bunin
Ivan Bunin
Russian author
Nobel laureate Czesław Miłosz, c. 1980
Czesław Miłosz
Polish-American author, translator, critic, and diplomat
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Rabindranath Tagore
Bengali poet
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Romain Rolland
French writer
Camilo José Cela
Camilo José Cela
Spanish writer
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Halldór Laxness
Icelandic writer

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