Mario Monteforte Toledo

Mario Monteforte Toledo (1911 – 2003) was a Guatemalan writer, dramatist, and politician. Born in Guatemala City, he played important roles in the governments of both Juan José Arévalo and Jacobo Arbenz, including periods as Ambassador to the United Nations between 1946 and 1947, as a deputy in the National Congress from 1947 to 1951, and being both leader of the Congress and Vice-President between 1948 and 1949 before retiring from politics in 1951. With the fall of the Arbenz administration in 1954, Monteforte went into exile in Mexico until 1987.

In 1993, Mario Monteforte was awarded the Guatemala National Prize in Literature for his body of work.

Published work

Novels

• Anaité (1948)
• Entre la piedra y la cruz (1948)
• Donde acaban los caminos (1952)
• Una manera de morir (1958)
• Llegaron del mar (1966)
• Los desencontrados (1977)
• Unas vísperas muy largas (1996)
• Los adoradores de la muerte (2000)

Short stories

• La cueva sin quietud (1949)
• Cuentos de derrota y esperanza (1962)
• Casi todos los cuentos (anthology) (1982
• Pascualito (children's story) (1991)
• La isla de las navajas (1993)
• Cuentos de la Biblia (2001)

Essays

• Guatemala. Monografía sociológica (1959-1965)
• Las piedras vivas (1965)
• Centroamérica, subdesarrollo y dependencia (1973)
• Mirada sobre Latinoamérica (1975)
• Palabras del retorno (1992).

External links

• Review of Monteforte's autobiographical film Donde acaban los Caminos
• Biography in Spanish

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Name	Monteforte Toledo
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Date of birth	1911
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Date of death	2003
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