The Most Famous
WRITERS from Paraguay
This page contains a list of the greatest Paraguayan Writers. The pantheon dataset contains 7,302 Writers, 1 of which were born in Paraguay. This makes Paraguay the birth place of the 129th most number of Writers behind El Salvador, and United Arab Emirates.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Paraguayan Writers of all time. This list of famous Paraguayan Writers is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Augusto Roa Bastos (1917 - 2005)
With an HPI of 57.30, Augusto Roa Bastos is the most famous Paraguayan Writer. His biography has been translated into 42 different languages on wikipedia.
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. 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 circumstances. Most of Roa Bastos's work was written in exile, but this did not deter him from fiercely tackling Paraguayan social and historical issues in his work. Writing in a Spanish that was at times heavily augmented by Guaraní words (the major Paraguayan indigenous language), Roa Bastos incorporated Paraguayan myths and symbols into a Baroque style known as magical realism. He is considered a late-comer to the Latin American Boom literary movement. Roa Bastos's canon includes the novels Hijo de hombre (1960; Son of Man) and El fiscal (1993; The Prosecutor), as well as numerous other novels, short stories, poems, and screenplays.
People
Pantheon has 1 people classified as Paraguayan writers born between 1917 and 1917. Of these 1, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased Paraguayan writers include Augusto Roa Bastos.