Guatemalan literature is literature written by Guatemalan authors, whether in the indigenous languages present in the country or in Spanish. Though there was likely literature in Guatemala before the arrival of the Spanish, all the texts that exist today were written after their arrival.
Read more about Guatemalan Literature: Literature in Mayan Languages, Colonial Period: 16th - 19th Centuries, Guatemalan Literature After Independence: The Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century
Famous quotes containing the word literature:
“In literature the ambition of the novice is to acquire the literary language: the struggle of the adept is to get rid of it.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)
Related Phrases
Related Words