Author · Bolivia
Augusto Guzmán
Died in 1994
Augusto Guzmán was born on 1 September 1903 in Totora. A lawyer who graduated from the University of San Simón in Cochabamba, where he chaired the student federation, he fought as a sergeant in the Chaco War, was taken prisoner by the Paraguayans after the battle of El Carmen, in 1934, then freed thanks to the intervention of the Society of Writers of Chile. A novelist, biographer and literary historian, author of forty-four books and a member of the Bolivian academies of history and of the language, he died in Cochabamba on 24 December 1994.
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- NovelPrisionero de guerraAugusto Guzmán · 1937not translated into EnglishLiterature