Miguel Ángel Asturias Rosales 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 Guatemala. The Nobel Prize in Literature 1967, announced October 19, 1967. Miguel Angel Asturias, “for his vivid literary achievement, deep-rooted in the national traits and traditions of Indian peoples of Latin America”. Miguel Angel Asturias: born 1899, Guatemala City, Guatemala. Wiki link Data: the Nobel Foundation (CC0).