Arturo Arias

Arturo Arias (Guatemala city, 1950) is a Guatemalan novelist and critic, who is currently a professor of 20th-century Spanish-American Literature at the University of Texas at Austin. He has taught courses specializing in: Central American literature; Indigenous literatures; social and critical theory; race, gender and sexuality in postcolonial societies; cultural studies, and ethnographic approaches. Professor Arias has previously taught at the Redlands University in Southern California and is a past president of the Latin American Studies Association. Dr. Arias holds a PhD in Sociology of Literature, from L'Ecole des Hautes Etudes Paris, France. (1978) He has written 6 novels and have been awarded with several prizes.

His books include The Rigoberta Menchú Controversy, After the Bombs, and Rattlesnake.

List of works in English

• Arias, Arturo (1990), After the Bombs, Willimantic, CT: Curbstone, ISBN 978-0915306886 . Trans. Asa Zatz.
• Arias, Arturo (2001), The Rigoberta Menchú Controversy, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, ISBN 978-0816636266 .
• Arias, Arturo (2007), Taking their Word: Literature and the Signs of Central America, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, ISBN 978-0816648498 
• Rattlesnake Curbstone Press (2003) ISBN 978-1931896016 (spy thriller)

Awards

• Anna Seghers Prize 1990 for his novel Jaguar en llamas
• Academy Award 1985 for Best Original Screenplay (El Norte); co-writer
• Casa de las Américas Prize 1981 for his novel Itzam-Na
• Casa de las Américas Prize 1979 for his essay Ideologías, literatura y sociedad durante la revolución guatemalteca 1944-1954

References

• Arturo Arias - Academic Biography