Augusto Roa Bastos - Bibliography

Novelist, born in Asunción, Paraguay. He left his native Paraguay in 1947 after speaking out against military dictatorships. He lived in Argentina, France, and Spain during his exile, returning to Paraguay in 1989. The author of several works of fiction, he was also a journalist, screenwriter, and teacher, and until his retirement in 1985 was a professor at the University of Toulouse. I the Supreme (1947, trans title) is regarded as his masterpiece. In 1989 he received the Premio Cervantes prize awarded to outstanding writers in the Spanish language.

Augusto Roa Bastos, (June 13, 1917 – April 26, 2005), was a Paraguayan novelist, widely acclaimed as one of the greatest that nation has produced. translated as "I, the Supreme"), one of the foremost Latin American novels to tackle the question of dictators and dictatorships, in the person of José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia, who ruled Paraguay with an iron fist and no little eccentricity for 26 years in the early 19th century. His other major work was Hijo de Hombre (1960; After the war, his first jobs were as a bank clerk and reporter on the Asunción daily El País; around the same time, he also began writing for the theatre. he also served as the El País war correspondent in London and covered the Nuremberg Trials for that paper.

In 1947, because of his activities in opposition to President Higinio Morínigo during the Paraguayan Civil War, he was forced to flee the country. That same year, he was awarded the Premio Cervantes (Cervantes Prize), awarded by the Spanish Royal Academy and its correspondent academies in the various American nations, in recognition of outstanding contributions to the Spanish-language novel;

Bibliography

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 1976 – El somnámbulo 1979 – Los Juegos 1980 – Antología personal 1984 – Contar un cuento, y otros relatos 1989 – On Modern Latin American Fiction 1996 – Metaforismos