Augusto roa bastos biography

Paraguayan writer (1917–2005)

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Roa and the second or maternal family name is Bastos.

Augusto Roa Bastos (13 June 1917 – 26 April 2005) was a Paraguayan novelist and short story writer.

As a teenager he fought in the Chaco War between Paraguay and Bolivia, and he later worked as a journalist, screenwriter and professor.

Augusto Roa Bastos was a Latin American novelist, short-story writer, and film scriptwriter of national and international fame.

Augusto Roa Bastos was a Latin American novelist, short-story writer, and film scriptwriter of national and international fame.

Augusto Roa Bastos was a Paraguayan novelist and short story writer.

Augusto Roa Bastos (13 June – 26 April ) was a.

Augusto Roa Bastos is considered his country's most important writer, and one of the most internationally significant Hispano-American writers.

Augusto Roa Bastos is Paraguay's most widely acclaimed author.

He is best known for his complex novel Yo el Supremo (I the Supreme) and for winning the Premio Miguel de Cervantes in 1989, Spanish literature's most prestigious prize. Yo el Supremo explores the dictations and inner thoughts of José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia, the eccentric dictator of Paraguay who ruled with an iron fist, from 1814 until his death in 1840.

Roa Bastos's life and writing were marked by experience with dictatorial military regimes. In 1947 he was forced into exile in Argentina, and in 1976 he fled Buenos Aires for France in similar political c