Paris Deputy Mayor in charge of international relations, European affairs and the Francophonie Audrey Pulvar (R) receives a commemorative plaque from Guatemalan Minister of Culture and Sports Luis Mendez Salinas, following the handover of the ashes of Nobel Prize-winning Guatemalan writer Miguel Angel Asturias, who died in 1974 and was buried in Paris, to his son, 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)