Arturo Arias 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

Latin American Studies Association

The Latin American Studies Association is the largest association for scholars of Latin American studies. Founded in 1966, it has over 6,000 members, forty-five percent of whom reside outside the United States, LASA brings together experts on Latin America from all disciplines and diverse...

. 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

. Trans. Asa Zatz..

• Rattlesnake Curbstone Press (2003) ISBN 978-1931896016 (spy thriller)

Awards

• Anna Seghers
  Anna Seghers
  Anna Seghers was a German writer famous for depicting the moral experience of the Second World War.- Life :...
  
   Prize 1990 for his novel Jaguar en llamas
• Academy Award 1985 for Best Original Screenplay (El Norte); co-writer
• Casa de las Américas Prize
  Casa de las Américas Prize
  The Casa de las Américas Prize is a Cuban cultural award given by the Casa de las Américas, an organization founded in April 1959. It is one of Latin America’s oldest and most prestigious literary awards....
  
   1981 for his novel Itzam-Na
• Casa de las Américas Prize
  Casa de las Américas Prize
  The Casa de las Américas Prize is a Cuban cultural award given by the Casa de las Américas, an organization founded in April 1959. It is one of Latin America’s oldest and most prestigious literary awards....
  
  1979 for his essay Ideologías, literatura y sociedad durante la revolución guatemalteca 1944-1954