Author · Bolivia
Augusto Céspedes
Died in 1997
Augusto Céspedes was born on 6 February 1904 in Cochabamba. Trained as a lawyer, a profession he never practised, he became a journalist, followed the Chaco War as a correspondent, then co-founded the daily La Calle in 1936. Deputy for the mining districts in 1938, he was among the founders and ideologues of the Revolutionary Nationalist Movement, went into exile in Argentina, then served as ambassador to Paraguay, Italy and Unesco. Winner of the National Prize for Literature in 1957, he died in La Paz on 11 May 1997.
In the catalogue 1
- Short storiesSangre de mestizosAugusto Céspedes · 1936not translated into EnglishLiterature