WRITER

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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Augusto Roa Bastos has received more than 123,482 page views. His biography is available in 42 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 41 in 2019). Augusto Roa Bastos is the 1,734th most popular writer (down from 1,683rd in 2019), the 8th most popular biography from Paraguay and the most popular Paraguayan Writer.

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  • 42

    Languages Editions (L)

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  • 4.61

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Notable Works

El trueno entre las hojas
1953
Contravida
1994
Yo, el Supremo
1974
El baldío
1966
Hijo de hombre
1960

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Augusto Roa Bastos ranks 1,734 out of 7,302. Before him are Sabino Arana, Alexander Grin, Håkan Nesser, Michael Madhusudan Dutt, Arthur Machen, and Rifa'a al-Tahtawi. After him are Robert de Boron, Stanisław Wyspiański, Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, William Carlos Williams, Joan Didion, and Konstantin Ushinsky.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1917, Augusto Roa Bastos ranks 95. Before him are Otto Kittel, Will Eisner, Zhang Chunqiao, Jean Rouch, Atle Selberg, and Harold Garfinkel. After him are Buddy Rich, Charlotte Salomon, Jânio Quadros, Urie Bronfenbrenner, Irving Penn, and Vasily Petrov. Among people deceased in 2005, Augusto Roa Bastos ranks 77. Before him are Ba Jin, Richard Pryor, Yao Wenyuan, Will Eisner, Zhang Chunqiao, and Vincent Schiavelli. After him are Cicely Saunders, Annette Stroyberg, Urie Bronfenbrenner, Álvaro Cunhal, Andre Gunder Frank, and Alberto Lattuada.

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In Paraguay

Among people born in Paraguay, Augusto Roa Bastos ranks 8 out of 203. Before him are Francisco Solano López (1827), José Luis Chilavert (1965), José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia (1766), Fernando Lugo (1951), Carlos Antonio López (1792), and Agustín Barrios (1885). After him are Arsenio Erico (1915), Andrés Rodríguez (1923), Horacio Cartes (1956), Eusebio Ayala (1875), José Félix Estigarribia (1888), and Julio César Romero (1960).

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Among WRITERS In Paraguay

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

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