Anna Seghers
Arias has published numerous novels, as well as scholarly books and journal articles, in English and Spanish. He received the Casa de las Américas Prize for his novel "Itzam Na" (1981), the Anna Seghers award for his novel "Jaguar en llamas" (1990), and the Casa de las Américas prize in essay for his book "Ideología, Literatura y Sociedad durante la Revolución Guatemalteca, 1944-1954" (1979). In 2008, he was honored with the Miguel Angel Asturias National Award for Lifetime Achievement in Literature in his native Guatemala.