Guatemalan Literature - Twentieth Century

Twentieth Century

In the 20th century, Guatemalan literature reached a level comparable to that of other Latin American countries. The most important Guatemalan writers in this period are novelist Miguel Ángel Asturias (1967 Nobel Prize winner and author of novels including El Señor Presidente and Hombres de Maíz), poet Luis Cardoza y Aragón, short story writer and novelist Augusto Monterroso (2000 Príncipe de Asturias prize winner), and playwright Carlos Solórzano. In general, 20th-century Guatemalan literature is strongly influenced by politics, as evidenced by the fact that its authors were forced into exile during Guatemala's successive dictatorships and civil wars.

20th-century Guatemalan literature is usually divided by generation or decade:

  • The generation of 1910 or "the Comet"
  • The generation of 1920
  • The generation of 1930 or "Grupo Tepeus"
  • The generation of 1940 or "Grupo Acento"]
  • The Grupo Saker-ti (1944–1954)
  • The generation "comprometida" (after 1954)
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  • Belize
  • Canada
  • Costa Rica
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  • Dominica
  • Dominican Republic
  • El Salvador
  • Grenada
  • Guatemala
  • Haiti
  • Honduras
  • Jamaica
  • Mexico
  • Nicaragua
  • Panama
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  • Saint Lucia
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  • Trinidad and Tobago
  • United States
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  • Anguilla
  • Aruba
  • Bermuda
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  • British Virgin Islands
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  • Curaçao
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  • Guadeloupe
  • Martinique
  • Montserrat
  • Puerto Rico
  • Saint Barthélemy
  • Saint Martin
  • Saint Pierre and Miquelon
  • Saba
  • Sint Eustatius
  • Sint Maarten
  • Turks and Caicos Islands
  • United States Virgin Islands

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