Augusto Roa Bastos, Paraguayan journalist, author, and academic (born 1917)

Augusto Roa Bastos

Paraguayan writer (1917–2005)

Augusto Roa Bastos 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 and for winning the…