Perennial Nobel Prize candidate Agusto Roa Bastos, the Paraguayan novelist known for I, the Supreme, has died at age 88, according to a brief Agence France Presse report. Roa Bastos won the Spanish-speaking world’s highest literary honor,” the Cervantes, in 1989. The AFP story notes, “He wrote more than 20 works of fiction, short stories, plays and books of poetry, and his work has been translated into scores of languages.”