Carlos Alberto Navarrete Cáceres (born January 29, 1931, in

Quetzaltenango Quetzaltenango (, also known by its Maya name Xelajú or Xela ) is a municipality and namesake department in western Guatemala. The city is located in a mountain valley at an elevation of above sea level at its lowest part. It may reach above ...

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) is an

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and

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. He studied history and literature at the

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and received his doctorate in anthropology from the

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. He is the author of books on anthropology and the 2002 collection of annotated essays entitled ''Luis Cardoza y Aragón y el Grupo Saker-Ti'', that deals with the work of

Luis Cardoza y Aragón Luis Cardoza y Aragón (June 21, 1904 - September 4, 1992) was a Guatemalan writer, essayist, poet, art critic, and diplomat. Born in Antigua Guatemala, he spent part of his life living in exile in Mexico. Cardoza attended primary school in Anti ...

and his participation in a

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organized by the

Grupo Saker-Ti Grupo Saker-Ti was a Guatemalan group of writers formed in 1947. The name derives from the Cakchiquel language word for "dawn." Because they were Left-wing politics, left-wing ideologues who supported the democratically elected presidents of Guatem ...

. Carlos Navarrete Cáceres was awarded the 2005

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for his body of writings.

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Carlos Navarrete
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