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Augusto Roa Bastos (b. 1917). The greatest living Paraguayan novelist. Roa Bastos is best known for 'I, the Supreme' ('Yo, el Supremo') (1974), probably the greatest Latin American 'dictator' novel, and 'Son of Man' ('Hijo de Hombre') (1960). He is also the author of numerous other novels and stories.In 1989 he was awarded the Premio Cervantes (Cervantes Prize), regarded as a type of Nobel Prize in Literature in Spanish language.
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- 1942 - El ruiseñor de la aurora, y otros poemas
- 1947-1949 - El naranjal ardiente, nocturno paraguayo
- 1950 - El fiscal
- 1960 - Hijo de hombre (Son of Man)
- 1974 - Yo, el Supremo (I, the Supreme)
- 1979 - Lucha hasta el alba
- 1992 - Vigilia del Almirante
- 1996 - Madama Sui
- 1953 - El trueno entre las hojas
- 1967 - Los pies sobre el agua
- 1969 - Moriencia
- 1972 - Cuerpo presente, y otros textos
- 1974 - El pollito de fuego
- 1974 - Los Congresos
- 19761976 is a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). Events January January 12 UN Security Council votes 11-1 to admit the Palestinian Liberation Organization January 15 Would-be Gerald Ford presidential assassin Sara Jane Moore is s - El somnámbulo
- 1979 - Los Juegos
- 19801980 is a leap year starting on Tuesday. Events January-February January 1- April 1 National steel strike in United Kingdom January 1 Changes to the Swedish Act of Succession creates Victoria of Sweden, Crown Princess over her younger brother January 5 He - Antología personal
- 1984This page is about the year 1984. For other uses of 1984, see 1984 (disambiguation). 1984 is a leap year starting on Sunday (link shows calendar). Events January January 1 Brunei becomes a fully independent state January 1 AT&T is broken up into 22 indepe - Contar un cuento, y otros relatos
- 1989 - On Modern Latin American Fiction
- 1996 - Metaforismos
Bastos, Augusto Roa
