In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Monteforte and the second or maternal family name is Toledo.

Mario Monteforte Toledo (September 15, 1911 – September 4, 2003) was a Guatemalan writer, dramatist, and politician. Born in Guatemala City, he played important roles in the governments of both Juan José Arévalo and Jacobo Arbenz, including periods as Amb*ador to the United Nations between 1946 and 1947, as a deputy in the National Congress from 1947 to 1951, and being both President of the Congress and Vice-President between 1948 and 1949 before retiring from politics in 1951. With the fall of the Arbenz administration in 1954, Monteforte went into exile in Mexico until 1987.

A master of narrative prose, in 1993, Mario Monteforte was awarded the Guatemala National Prize in Literature for his body of work. He died of heart disease in Guatemala City.

Contents

• 1 Published work
  • 1.1 Novels
  • 1.2 Short stories
  • 1.3 Essays
• 2 External links

Published work

Novels

• Anaité (1948)
• Entre la piedra y la cruz (1948)
• Donde acaban los caminos (1952)
• Una manera de morir (1958)
• Llegaron del mar (1966)
• Los desencontrados (1977)
• Unas vísperas muy largas (1996)
• Los adoradores de la muerte (2000)

Short stories

• La cueva sin quietud (1949)
• Cuentos de derrota y esperanza (1962)
• Casi todos los cuentos (anthology) (1982
• Pascualito (children's story) (1991)
• La isla de las navajas (1993)
• Cuentos de la Biblia (2001)

Essays

• Guatemala. Monografía sociológica (1959–1965)
• Las piedras vivas (1965)
• Centroamérica, subdesarrollo y dependencia (1973)
• Mirada sobre Latinoamérica (1975)
• Literatura, ideología y lenguaje (1983)
• Los signos del hombre (1984)
• Las formas y los días - El barroco en Guatemala (1989)
• Palabras del retorno (1992).

External links

• Review of Monteforte's autobiographical film Donde acaban los Caminos
• Biography in Spanish