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Which Paraguayan author wrote Yo el supremo?

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The Paraguayan author who wrote the novel Yo, el supremo (1974) is Augusto Roa Bastos. This work, which is considered his most ambitious, is based on the life of the 19th-century dictator José Gaspar de Francia and covers more than a century of Paraguayan history.12