Juan Bautista Rivarola Matto

Juan Bautista Rivarola Matto was born in Asunción on 12 November 1933, a descendant of a man of independence. At thirteen, he took part in the civil war of 1947, then in the armed groups opposed to Stroessner in the sixties, and studied law and philosophy in Buenos Aires during an exile of more than twenty years. Back in 1979, as a journalist, he founded the following year a publishing house that published forty-two Paraguayan books in four years. He died in Asunción on 14 October 1991.

In the catalogue 1

• NovelLa isla sin marJuan Bautista Rivarola Matto · 1987not translated into EnglishLiterature