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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. Son of a governor of the state of Honduras in the Federal Republic of Central America, José ...
The courtier's oracle, or, The art of prudence, 1694 translation. The Art of Worldly Wisdom (Spanish: Oráculo Manual y Arte de Prudencia) is a book written in 1647 by Baltasar Gracián y Morales, better known as Baltasar Gracian. [1] It is a collection of 300 maxims, each with a commentary, on various topics giving advice and guidance on how ...
María Laura Elisa Hall Sánchez [1] [2] was born on 26 February 1900 in Guatemala City, Guatemala to poet, translator and academic, Guillermo Francisco Hall Avilés and Elisa Sánchez. She was the only daughter in a family of five brothers and grew up in an environment of intellectuals dedicated to education and literature.
El Señor Presidente. El Señor Presidente (Mister President) is a 1946 novel written in Spanish by Nobel Prize -winning Guatemalan writer and diplomat Miguel Ángel Asturias (1899–1974). A landmark text in Latin American literature, El Señor Presidente explores the nature of political dictatorship and its effects on society.
Sophos Ltd. is a British security software and hardware company. It develops and markets managed security services and cybersecurity software and hardware, such as managed detection and response, incident response and endpoint security software. [4][5] Sophos was listed on the London Stock Exchange until it was acquired by Thoma Bravo in ...
Culture of Guatemala. Guatemalan literature is literature written by Guatemalan authors, whether in the indigenous languages present in the country or in Spanish. Though there was likely literature in Guatemala before the arrival of the Spanish, all the texts that exist today were written after their arrival.
When a woman responds to his love, he ties the mules to the house's pole where she lives, unhooks his guitar, and starts singing and dancing. Some residents from the neighborhoods of La Recolección and Parroquia Vieja say he still wanders at nights when there is a full moon. El Sombrerón is one of the most important legends of Guatemala ...
Rafael Landívar. Rafael Landívar, S.J. (Santiago de los Caballeros, Guatemala, Captaincy General of Guatemala, October 27, 1731 - Bologna, Italy, September 27, 1793) was a Guatemalan poet and Jesuit priest. He is considered among the important authors of the Spanish Universalist School of the 18th century.