 He also got to know fellow Guatemalan writer Miguel Ángel Asturias who came to Paris to study at the Sorbonne.Decades later in 1991 Cardoza wrote a book entitled "Miguel Ángel Asturias, Casi Novela" (Ediciones Era) about their time in Paris during the 1920s and 1930s that earned him the 1992 Mazatlan Literature award in Mexico.Luis Cardoza was appointed Consul General of Guatemala in New York City under the Guatemalan government of Lázaro Chacón but in the early 1930s left the job and his country because of the dictatorial rule of new President Jorge Ubico.