Quote of the day
Park women, properly so called, are those degraded creatures, utterly lost to all sense of shame, who wander about the paths most frequented after nightfall in the Parks, and consent to any species of humiliation for the sake of acquiring a few shillings
Augusto Roa Bastos
![Augusto Roa Bastos](/apics/augusto-roa-bastos.jpg)
Born: June 13, 1917
Died: April 26, 2005 (aged 87)
Bio: Augusto Roa Bastos was a Paraguayan novelist and short story writer. As a teenager he fought in the Chaco War between Paraguay and Bolivia, and he later worked as a journalist, screenwriter and professor.
Known for:
- I, the Supreme (1974)
- Hijo de hombre (1960)
- Madama Sui (1995)
- El Trueno Entre Las Hojas (1953)
- El Fiscal (1993)