 In Guatemala his face soon adorned postage stamps, a street was named after him, and he received a medal.According to Kjell Strömberg in "The 1967 Prize", "the whole of his little country was given over to rejoicing".Further admiration was expressed throughout Latin America, where Asturias's Nobel Prize was viewed as an accomplishment for Latin American literature as a whole, rather than the achievement of a single author or country.