Deputy Mayor of Paris, in charge of international relations, European affairs, and the Francophonie Audrey Pulvar (2ndR) handovers the ashes of Nobel Prize-winning Guatemalan writer Miguel Angel Asturias, who died in 1974 and was buried in Paris, to his son, Miguel Angel Asturias Amado (2ndL) and grandson Sandino Asturias Valenzuela (L), past Guatemalan Minister of Culture and Sports Luis Mendez Salinas, ahead of their repatriation to Guatemala for a state funeral, during a symbolic ceremony at Paris City Hall on November 3, 2026. France and Guatemala are preparing state funerals for the writer, whose ashes will be laid to rest in a monument erected within Guatemala's main cultural center, named after him. The family decided to repatriate his ashes following the arrival to power in 2024 of social-democratic President Bernardo Arevalo, Miguel Angel Asturias Amado, the Nobel laureate's son, told AFP. (Photo by Kenzo TRIBOUILLARD / AFP via Getty Images)