Augusto Roa Bastos Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
Augusto Roa Bastos (June 13, 1917 – April 26, 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 Dr. José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia, who ruled Paraguay with an iron fist and no little eccentricity from 1814 until his death in 1840.Roa Bastos' 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' 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' 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.
Miguel de Cervantes Prize, Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts, Latin America & Caribbean
Movies
Alias Gardelito, La sangre y la semilla, La Boda
Star Sign
Gemini
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Winner of the Cervantes Prize for Literature in Spanish, he was considered Paraguay's most important contemporary writer. He lived in exile for 42 years, leaving his homeland voluntarily because of political upheaval, but returning for good in the mid-1990s. He was often mentioned as a candidate for the Nobel Prize for Literature. Along with books, poems, and plays, he wrote screenplays, many of which were translated into several languages.
Writer
Title
Year
Status
Character
La sangre y la semilla
2014
writer
La madre María
1974
Soluna
1969
writer
Ya tiene comisario el pueblo
1967
Castigo al traidor
1966
short story "Encuentro con el traidor"
La boda
1964
El demonio en la sangre
1964
El terrorista
1962
El último piso
1962
Alias Gardelito
1961
La sed
1961
novel "Hijo de hombre, chapter La sed" / screenplay
$5 Million
