The Centenary of Paraguayan Author’s Birth Brings Attention to the Genre He Helped Create

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When Carlos Fuentes and Mario Vargas Llosa, both considered integral to the “Latin American Boom” literature movement in the 1960s and 70s, asked authors to contribute to a book about “the fathers of the homeland,” they were asking for stories on political tyrants – specifically, each author’s “favorite national tyrants.”

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