Asturias, Miguel Angel, ahs TOO ryahs, mee GEHL AHNG hehl (1899-1974), a Guatemalan author and diplomat, won the Nobel Prize in literature in 1967. His early work Legends of Guatemala (1930) displays a creative use of Central American Indian traditions. His novel Mr. President (1946) condemns political dictatorship while experimenting with narrative techniques. His novel Men of Corn (1949) combines mythological narrative from Indian sources with social criticism. The trilogy of novels Strong Wind (1950), The Green Pope (1954), and The Eyes of the Interred (1960) focuses on unjust conditions of agricultural work in Central America.