Which Guatemalan author won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1967?

The Guatemalan author who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1967 was Miguel Ángel Asturias. The Swedish Academy honored him for literary work rooted in the national traits and traditions of Indigenous peoples in Latin America.

Asturias was a novelist, poet, diplomat, and translator whose writing fused myth, political criticism, and social history. His first major book, *Legends of Guatemala* (1930), drew on Mayan traditions. His novel *The President* (1946) offered a powerful portrait of dictatorship, while *Men of Maize* (1949) explored Indigenous identity, land, and cultural conflict.

Asturias became the first Guatemalan Nobel literature laureate and only the second Latin American recipient at that time, after Chilean poet Gabriela Mistral won in 1945. The listed alternatives belong to different national and Nobel histories: Vargas Llosa won in 2010, Octavio Paz in 1990, and Pablo Neruda in 1971.