(Fairleigh Dickinson University Press; Annotated edition (20 February 2018)); she is professor of Spanish and Latin American literature at University of North Dakota
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Augusto Roa Bastos
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 Premio Miguel de Cervantes in 1989, Spanish literature's most prestigious prize. Yo el Supremo explores the dictations and…
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culture · Paraguayan writer (1917–2005) · journalist · writer · screenwriter · university teacher · poet · also Augusto Roa Bastos, Bastos
Born 13 June 1917 · Died 26 April 2005 · Q159967
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2005· 2 entries
The Independent: Augusto Roa Bastos
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Died 2005-04-26.
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1997· 3 entries
Awarded Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres (1997).
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Awarded Knight of the Legion of Honour (1997).
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France distinguished him as Chevalier of the Legion d'Honneur
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1995· 1 entry
Received Paraguay's National Prize for Literature
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1992· 1 entry
And El fiscal (1993; The Prosecutor) the following year
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1991· 2 entries
Representing Paraguay, Roa Bastos signed The Morelia Declaration "demanding the reversal of the ecological destruction of the planet
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Roa Bastos adapted Yo, el Supremo for the screen
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1990· 1 entry
Awarded Grand Cross of the Order of Isabella the Catholic (1990).
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1989· 6 entries
Awarded honorary doctor of the University of Toulouse-II (1989).
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Awarded Miguel de Cervantes Prize (1989).
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Awarded Kurt Tucholsky Prize (1989).
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Spanish literature's most prestigious prize
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Roa Bastos returned to Paraguay at the request of its new leader Andrés Rodríguez
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Was invited back by Paraguay's new president, Andrés Rodríguez, following the collapse of the Stroessner regime
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1986· 1 entry
Was greeted with widespread acclaim in the English-speaking world
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1985· 1 entry
Roa Bastos retired from the University of Toulouse
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1976· 2 entries
And he did not return permanently to Paraguay until 1989
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However, the book was banned in Argentina, and Roa Bastos was exiled once again, this time to Toulouse, France
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1974· 1 entry
Roa Bastos published his influential masterpiece Yo el Supremo, the result of seven years' work
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1970· 2 entries
Was again barred from entry in 1982, for purportedly engaging in subversive activities
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And 1979, and the Cervantes Prize, an award given by the Spanish government for lifetime achievement, and Spanish language literature's most prestigious prize, which he received in 1989
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1961· 1 entry
Once again collaborated with Murúa for Alias Gardelito (1961), which depicted the lives of urban petty criminals and became a major independent film of the nuevo cine movement
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1959· 1 entry
Roa Bastos won the Losada prize for his first published novel Hijo de hombre
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1953· 2 entries
El Trueno entre las Hojas, set the stage for Hijo de hombre and Yo, el Supremo with its dark portrayal of devastating political struggle and oppression
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The collection of 17 short stories El trueno entre las hojas (1953; Thunder Among the Leaves) was published and circulated internationally, but it was not until the 1960 publication of the novel Hijo de hombre (Son of Ma
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1947· 1 entry
Was forced into exile in Argentina, and in 1976 he fled Buenos Aires for France in similar political circumstances
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1944· 1 entry
The British Council awarded Roa Bastos a nine-month fellowship for journalism in London
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1942· 2 entries
Published a book of poems in the classic Spanish style, which he titled El Ruiseñor De La Aurora (The Dawn Nightingale), a work he later renounced
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Was appointed editorial secretary for the Asunción daily El País
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1941· 2 entries
Roa Bastos won the Ateneo Paraguayo prize for Fulgencia Miranda, although the book was never published
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Won the Ateneo Paraguayo Prize for his (unpublished) novel Fulgencio Miranda
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1932· 1 entry
The territorial Chaco War began between Paraguay and Bolivia and continued until 1935
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1917· 1 entry
Born 1917-06-13.
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1840· 1 entry
And is a unique figure in Latin American history
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