Winner of the Cervantes Prize for Literature in Spanish, he was
considered Paraguay's most important contemporary writer. He lived in
exile for 42 years, leaving his homeland voluntarily because of
political upheaval, but returning for good in the mid-1990s. He was
often mentioned as a candidate for the Nobel Prize for Literature.
Along with books, poems, and plays, he wrote screenplays, many of which
were translated into several languages.