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Augusto Roa Bastos

Augusto Roa Bastos

Augusto Roa Bastos, (born Asunción, June 13, 1917 - died Asunción, April 26, 2005) is undoubtedly one of the greatest Paraguayan novelists of all time, and indeed among the most important Latin American writers. As a teenager he fought in the Chaco War between Paraguay and Bolivia and worked as journalist and a film scriptwriter. He was best known for Yo el Supremo (1974, "I, the Supreme"). This is one of the foremost Latin American novels to tackle the question of dictators and dictatorships, in the person of José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia, who ruled Paraguay with an iron fist and no little eccentricity for 26 years in the early 19th century. His other major work was Hijo de Hombre (1960, "Son of Man"). He also wrote numerous other novels and stories.

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