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Augusto Roa Bastos
Paraguay
Augusto Roa Bastos won the Miguel de Cervantes Prize. He left Paraguay due to political upheaval and lived in exile for 42 years, returning in the mid-1990s. He wrote novels, poems, plays, and screenplays, including for the film Alias Gardelito 1961, and was often mentioned as a candidate for the Nobel Prize for Literature.