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Augusto Roa Bastos

Died in 2005

Augusto Roa Bastos was born in Asunción on 13 June 1917 and grew up in Iturbe, a village in the Paraguayan countryside, between Spanish and Guarani. As a teenager, he went off to the Chaco War as a medical auxiliary, then became a journalist and, in 1944 and 1945, a war correspondent in Europe. The civil war of 1947 forced him into exile in Buenos Aires; in 1976, he went to France and taught Guarani and literature in Toulouse. Returning to his country in 1989, he received the Cervantes Prize that same year and died in Asunción on 26 April 2005.

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