In 1956 he returned definitively to Mexico City, where he would occupy various academic and editorial posts and continue his work as a writer for the rest of his life.In 1988, Augusto Monterroso received the highest honor the Mexican government can bestow on foreign dignitaries, the Águila Azteca. He relocated to Santiago de Chile in 1954, when Arbenz's government was toppled with help from an American intervention. In 1953 he moved briefly to Bolivia upon being named Guatemalan consul in La Paz. Shortly after his arrival in Mexico, the revolutionary government of Jacobo Arbenz triumphed in Guatemala, and Monterroso was assigned to a minor post in the Guatemalan embassy in Mexico. To this end he founded the newspaper El Espectador with a group of other writers.He was detained and exiled to Mexico City in 1944 for his opposition to the dictatorial regime. Here he published his first short stories and began his clandestine work against the dictatorship of Jorge Ubico. In 1936 his family settled definitively in Guatemala City, where he would remain until early adulthood. Monterroso was born in Tegucigalpa, Honduras to a Honduran mother and Guatemalan father. He is considered an important figure in the Latin American "Boom" generation, and received several awards, including the Prince of Asturias Award in Literature (2000), Miguel Ángel Asturias National Prize in Literature (1997), and Juan Rulfo Award (1996). Augusto Monterroso Bonilla (DecemFebruary 7, 2003) was a Honduran writer who adopted Guatemalan nationality, known for the ironical and humorous style of his short stories.
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