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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 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 .
Antigua, Guatemala. Coordinates. 14°33′27″N 90°44′01″W / . 14.557440°N 90.733720°W. / 14.557440; -90.733720. Type. Printing press museum. The Museum of the Ancient Book ( Spanish: Museo del Libro Antiguo) is a museum in Antigua Guatemala, Sacatepéquez. The museum is dedicated to show the different types of printing used in ...
Miguel Ángel Asturias Rosales (Spanish pronunciation: [mi (ˈ)ɣel ˈaŋxel asˈtuɾjas]; 19 October 1899 – 9 June 1974) was a Guatemalan poet-diplomat, novelist, playwright and journalist. Winning the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1967, his work helped bring attention to the importance of indigenous cultures, especially those of his native ...
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 ...
Politics of Guatemala. Presidential elections were held in Guatemala during seven days in September 1898. [1] Prior to the elections Manuel Estrada Cabrera had established the first real political party in the country's history by admitting people from outside the influential liberals to the Liberal Party. [2]
Foreign. English. Spanish is the official language of Guatemala. Guatemalan Spanish is the local variant of the Spanish language. Twenty-two Mayan languages are spoken, especially in rural areas, as well as two non-Mayan Amerindian languages: Xinca, an indigenous language, and Garifuna, an Arawakan language spoken on the Caribbean coast.
The Marciana Library or Library of Saint Mark (Italian: Biblioteca Marciana, but in historical documents commonly referred to as the Libreria pubblica di san Marco) is a public library in Venice, Italy. It is one of the earliest surviving public libraries and repositories for manuscripts in Italy and holds one of the world's most significant ...