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Miguel de Cervantes Prize みげる・で・せるばんてすしょう

Edition 15 (1989)

Spanish-language literatureLifetime achievementNational (Spain)

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Augusto Roa Bastos あうぐすと ろあ ばすとす Winner

By mixing historical documents and fiction, it portrays dictatorship and its consequences while examining the machinery of power and individual fate from multiple angles. Its experimental use of language and narration turns Latin American memory and resistance into literature.

It depicts dictatorship and resistance between documents and fiction.

power and dictatorshiphistoryLatin American realitynarrative experimentation