Guatemala's Minister of Culture and Sports, Luis Mendez (L), and Sandino Asturias (2nd-R) applaud next to a postage stamp commemorating the repatriation of the remains of his grandfather, Guatemalan Nobel Prize-winning author Miguel Angel Asturias (1899-1974), during a ceremony at the National Palace of Culture in Guatemala City on November 11, 2026. The ashes of Nobel Prize in Literature laureate Miguel Angel Asturias are arriving in Guatemala on November 12, after being repatriated from France, half a century after his death, to be buried in the country that inspired him. (Photo by Johan ORDONEZ / AFP via Getty Images)