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27/04/2005
Augusto Roa Bastos dies, aged 88
Augusto Roa Bastos, the Paraguayan writer and winner of the Cervantes prize has died.
Roa Bastos, who was 88 died in hospital according to officials. Best know for his book I, the Supreme, Roa Bastos had been a candidate for a Nobel prize in literature and won the Cervantes, the highest literary honour in the Spanish-speaking world in 1989.
During his life Augusto Roa Bastos wrote more than 20 works of fiction, short stories, plays and books of poetry, and his work has been translated into scores of languages.
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