The author wrote a column in El Periódico de Catalunya for ten years. He won the Plaza Mayor Prize for poetry. He has worked as Creative Director at various advertising agencies. He is a documentary writer , and works in radio and television. He was a prize winner at the Cannes Festival for publicity films on two occasions. His published books are written mostly in a journalistic style.
We cannot ignore the team of people who have worked on this project, without whom the resulting book would not be as great as it is. Particularly notable among the 26 might be Fernando Vicente, Juan Madrid, Fernando Savater, José Luis Garcí, Arturo Pérez Reverte or Manuel Hidalgo. Each and every one of them has contributed their best efforts in order to produce a book as colossal as the book's protagonist.
Augusto Roa Bastos (Iturbe, 1917 – Asunción, 2005) is the most important Paraguayan writer, and has been translated into 25 languages. At the age of 15, he ran away from school with some classmates to live the adventure of war. The horrors that he witnessed in those days converted him into a great defender of peace.
Lecturer of Latin Philology at the University Of Oviedo.
Vice Dean of the Faculty of Philology since 1996 until 2009.