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Augusto Roa Bastos was born in Asuncion, Paraguay, on June 13, , to Lucio Roa and Lucía Bastos....
Roa Bastos, Augusto (1917–2005)
Paraguay's most renowned novelist, Augusto Roa Bastos was born in Asunción on June 12, 1917, and grew up in the small town of Iturbe, far from a large metropolitan center.
His writing, like that of José Maria Arguedas and Juan Ruffo, brings together cultural forms rooted in Latin America's rural spaces (such as oral storytelling and indigenous languages) with literary techniques and trends associated with high modernism.
—Roa Bastos, Metaforismos.
Although Roa Bastos spent many years in exile, Paraguay is central to all his work. He left in 1947 because of political pressures, living first in Buenos Aires and later France after the military coup in Argentina in 1976. He taught Latin American literature and the Guaraní language at the University of Toulouse.
Roa Bastos returned to Paraguay only with the fall of the Alfredo Stroessner dictatorship in 1989.
Roa Bastos's best-known works are his short stories and novels, but he also wrote plays and poems. His two masterpieces, t