Miguel Angel Asturias's Birth Card: The 3 of Clubs

In the record

Miguel Ángel Asturias Rosales (Spanish: [mi(ˈ)ɣel ˈaŋxel asˈtuɾjas]; 19 October 1899 – 9 June 1974) was a Guatemalan poet-diplomat, novelist, playwright and journalist. The birth-card coordinate for October 19 is the 3 of Clubs — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 1967 Literature prize.

Nobel Prize record

• 1967 The Nobel Prize in Literature — for his vivid literary achievement, deep-rooted in the national traits and traditions of Indian peoples of Latin America

The 3 of Clubs coordinate

Miguel Angel Asturias's birthday maps to the 3 of Clubs (The Creative Communicator). Card Blueprints treats that as a 365-day coordinate: solar value = 55 − (2 × month + day), and the year is unused. It is not a prediction about a Nobel Prize and not a verdict on Miguel Angel Asturias. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You move an idea across more than one channel without abandoning the one that needs depth.

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Miguel Angel Asturias in the public record

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. Asturias was born and raised in Guatemala though he lived a significant part of his adult life abroad. He first lived in Paris in the 1920s where he studied ethnology. Some scholars view him as the first Latin American novelist to show how the study of anthropology and linguistics could affect the writing of literature. While in Paris, Asturias also associated with the Surrealist movement, and he is credited with introducing many features of modernist style such as magical realism into Latin American letters. In this way, he is an important precursor of the Latin American Boom of the 1960s and 1970s. One of Asturias' most famous novels, El Señor Presidente, describes life under a ruthless dictator. It influenced later Latin American novelists in its mixture of realism and fantasy.

Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Miguel Ángel Asturias (CC BY-SA 4.0). No biographical facts were written for this page beyond that article.

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Miguel Ángel Asturias Rosales (Spanish: [mi(ˈ)ɣel ˈaŋxel asˈtuɾjas]; 19 October 1899 – 9 June 1974) was a Guatemalan poet-diplomat, novelist, playwright and journalist.

Paired on the mind and communication — the domain ♣ governs in this system. Markers in the record: journalist.

Also on the record

1. Asturias' very public opposition to dictatorial rule led to him spending much of his later life in exile, both in South America and in Europe.
2. The book that is sometimes described as his masterpiece, Hombres de maíz (Men of Maize), is a defense of Mayan culture and customs.
3. Asturias combined his extensive knowledge of Mayan beliefs with his political convictions, channeling them into a life of commitment and solidarity.
4. His work is often identified with the social and moral aspirations of the Guatemalan people.

Other laureates with this card

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• David J. Thouless — 2016 Physics
• Donald A. Glaser — 1960 Physics
• Elias Canetti — 1981 Literature
• Eugene Wigner — 1963 Physics
• Frances H. Arnold — 2018 Chemistry
• Hamilton O. Smith — 1978 Physiology or Medicine
• Hans Spemann — 1935 Physiology or Medicine
• Heike Kamerlingh Onnes — 1913 Physics
• Henri Becquerel — 1903 Physics
• Jean Dausset — 1980 Physiology or Medicine
• 14 more laureates share this card.

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What is Miguel Angel Asturias's birth card?

The 3 of Clubs. October 19 maps to that card through the public Card Blueprints formula. The year of birth is not used.

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