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Years active. 1942–2002. Luz Méndez de la Vega (2 September 1919 – 8 March 2012) was a Guatemalan feminist writer, journalist, poet, academic and actress. As an academic, she concentrated on researching and rescuing the work of colonial Guatemalan women writers. She was the winner of Guatemala's highest prize for literature, Miguel Ángel ...
José Beckers. The Carrera Theater (also called Colón Theater after the Liberal Reform of 1871) was a majestic classic Greek style theater built by president Captain General Rafael Carrera y Turcios in Guatemala City, Guatemala in 1852. The building was in the Old Central Square and after the liberal revolution of 1871 it was called National ...
José Milla y Vidaurre (August 4, 1822 in Guatemala City, First Mexican Empire — Guatemala City, Guatemala September 30, 1882) was a notable Guatemalan writer of the 19th century. He was also known by the name Pepe Milla and the pseudonym Salomé Jil .
Luis de Lión. Luis de Lión, born José Luis de León Díaz (August 19, 1939 – June 6, 1984) was a Guatemalan writer kidnapped on May 15, 1984 by elements of Guatemalan Army intelligence, and henceforth "disappeared". His posthumous novel, El tiempo principia en Xibalbá ( Time Commences in Xibalbá) is considered an important work in modern ...
The National Library of Guatemala ( Biblioteca Nacional) is the national library of Guatemala. It is located in Zone 1 of Guatemala City near the National Palace of Guatemala . The library has 7 reading rooms among them are: School reading room with 225,000 books. General reading room with 110,000 books together with collections of old books ...
Guatemala City, Guatemala. Other names. Margarita Carrera de Wever. Occupation (s) writer, philosopher, educator. Years active. 1957–2018. Margarita Carrera Molina (16 September 1929 – 31 March 2018) was a Guatemalan philosopher, professor and writer. She was a member of the Academia Guatemalteca de la Lengua and the 1996 laureate of the ...
José Batres Montúfar bust that was originally placed at the Colón Theater in 1892. After the earthquakes of 1917-18, it was refurbished and donated to the Guatemala National Library. In 1852, Juan Matheu and Manuel Francisco Pavón Aycinena presented Rafael Carrera with a plan to build a majestic National Theater, that would be called ...
Celia Barrios de Reyna. Celia Barrios Mazariegos de Reina (1 January 1834 - 5 July 1897) was the mother of President José María Reina Barrios and the 1st First Mother of Guatemala, and the sister of President Justo Rufino Barrios. [1] Celia Barrios y Mazariegos was born in San Marcos in 1834, daughter of Simon Barrios and Antolina Mazariegos ...