Augusto Roa Bastos was born on June 13, 1917, in Asuncin, Paraguay.

Augusto Roa Bastos died on April 26, 2005, in Asuncin, Paraguay of heart attack.

Augusto Roa Bastos has written:

'El baldio'

'Moriencia'

'I the supreme'

'Madera quemada'

'Los pies sobre el agua'

Some famous authors from Paraguay include Jose Ricardo Mazo, Roque Vallejo's, and Augusto Roa Bastos. All of them wrote in the mid-twentieth century.

Leading writers include Juan Silvano Godoi (1850-1926), Manuel Domínguez (1869-1935), Pablo Max Ynsfrán (b.1894), Justo Pastor Benítez (1895-1962), former president Juan Natalicio González (1897-1966), Gabriel Casaccia (1907-80), Augusto Roa Bastos (b.1917), and Hugo Rodríguez Alcalá (b.1918).