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Augusto Roa Bastos

1917 - 2005

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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. 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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Augusto Roa Bastos is the 1,552nd most popular writer (up from 1,733rd in 2019), the 7th most popular biography from Paraguay (up from 8th in 2019) and the most popular Paraguayan Writer.

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Among writers, Augusto Roa Bastos ranks 1,552 out of 7,302. Before him are Manuel Puig, Hunter S. Thompson, Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Samuel Pepys, Auguste Maquet, and Richard Lovelace. After him are Chernorizets Hrabar, Heiner Müller, Hovhannes Tumanyan, Al-Khalil ibn Ahmad al-Farahidi, Banine, and John Brunner.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1917, Augusto Roa Bastos ranks 91. Before him are Alparslan Türkeş, Henry Ford II, David Tomlinson, Yigael Yadin, Ettore Sottsass, and Maurice Trintignant. After him are Atle Selberg, Roque Máspoli, Harold Garfinkel, Luis Carniglia, Irving Penn, and Jânio Quadros. Among people deceased in 2005, Augusto Roa Bastos ranks 72. Before him are Vincent Schiavelli, Barrington Moore Jr., Maurice Trintignant, John Garang, Hunter S. Thompson, and Narriman Sadek. After him are Cicely Saunders, Robert Moog, Dana Elcar, Julio César Turbay Ayala, Will Eisner, and Álvaro Cunhal.

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In Paraguay

Among people born in Paraguay, Augusto Roa Bastos ranks 7 out of 203. Before him are Alfredo Stroessner (1912), Francisco Solano López (1827), José Luis Chilavert (1965), José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia (1766), Fernando Lugo (1951), and Carlos Antonio López (1792). After him are Horacio Cartes (1956), Agustín Barrios (1885), Arsenio Erico (1915), José Félix Estigarribia (1888), Juan Carlos Wasmosy (1938), and Julio César Romero (1960).

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Among writers born in Paraguay, Augusto Roa Bastos ranks 1. 

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