Augusto Monterroso's biography Although he grew in Guatemala and years later settled in Mexico for motives politics, the writer Augusto Monterroso (who was called "Tito"), was born on December 21, 1921 in Tegucigalpa, Honduras. The first texts of this narrator and essay-writer began to arise from 1959, year in which published the first edition of "Complete works and other stories". Time later, the literary work of this Guatemalan who is considered like one of the models of the mini fiction, would be more extensive with works like "The black sheep and other fables", "Perpetual move", "The rest is silence", "Travel to the center of the fable", "The magic word" and "The prospectors of golden", among others. Notably that Monterroso is the author of "When be aroused the dinosaur still was there", one composition that, during many years, it was indicated like the story more brief of the universal literature. However, there are to say that the achievements of former member of the Guatemalan Academy of the Spanish Language they were not just in that wise choice. Throughout of his trajectory, the writer not just received the qualification of "Doctor Honoris Causa" by the University of San Carlos from Guatemala, but also was decorated with the "Aguila Azteca" for his contribution to the Mexican culture, and recognized with the awards Magda Donato, Villaurrutia, Juan Rulfo Narrativa and the National Award of Literature in Guatemala, among others. In 2000, in addition, obtained the Award Prince Of Asturias of the lyrics. Augusto Monterroso die on February 7, 2003 leaving one legacy valuable that, nowadays, is under the protection of the University of Oviedo later that the writer Bárbara Jacobs, scabious of the Guatemalan author, decided donate the valuable colection to that educational institution.