Career
His poetry has been published in French, English, Estonian, Scots, German, Arabic and Italian translations, as well as in the original K'iche' and Spanish. In 1995 he received an honorary degree from the Department of Humanities of the Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala. He said Asturias' 1923 essay The Social Problem of the Indian, "Offends the indigenous peoples of Guatemala, of which I am part."
He was the recipient of a 2006 Guggenheim fellowship.