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Lily Tuck (born October 10, 1938) is an American novelist and short story writer whose novel The News from Paraguay won the 2004 National Book Award for Fiction. [2] Her 2008 biography Woman of Rome: A Life of Elsa Morante won the Premio Elsa Morante. [3] Her novel Siam was nominated for the 2000 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. [4] She is a ...
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The News from Paraguay: A Novel is 2004 novel by Lily Tuck and was the National Book Award winner for fiction. [1] It is a historical novel set in 19th century Paraguay , and explores the life of an Irish courtesan , Eliza Lynch , as she courts the soon to be Paraguayan president Francisco Solano López .
Martín Burt Artaza (born 21 May 1957) is a Paraguayan social entrepreneur, author and politician.He was the former chief of staff to Paraguay's president, known for founding Fundación Paraguaya in 1985, a leading non-profit and micro-finance organization in Paraguay, and creator of the Poverty Stoplight, a poverty measurement tool and coaching methodology.
As The New York Times noted, at the time of his death, "all 101 of Mr. L'Amour's books — 86 novels, 14 short-story collections and one full-length work of nonfiction," were in print, making him ...
The most important author to come out of Paraguay, he also remains highly influential for a new generation of Paraguayan authors. [50] Roa Bastos's relationship with his country, unbroken by over 40 years of exile, was considered so important that in 1989 he was invited back by Paraguay's new president, Andrés Rodríguez , following the ...
Dora Acuña (1903–1987), poet, journalist, radio presenter; María Luisa Artecona de Thompson, (1937–2003), writer particularly for children [1]; Chiquita Barreto (born 1947) novelist and academic
I, the Supreme (orig. Spanish Yo el Supremo) is a historical novel written by exiled Paraguayan author Augusto Roa Bastos.It is a fictionalized account of the nineteenth-century Paraguayan dictator José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia, who was also known as "Dr. Francia."