Augusto Céspedes Patzi (6 February 1904, Cochabamba – 9 May 1997, La Paz) was a Bolivian writer, politician, diplomat, and journalist.

Céspedes studied law and received his degree in La Paz.

He worked as a journalist on the front in the Chaco War, writing for the newspaper El Universal.

Among his many other stories and novels, Metal del Diablo, a fictionalized portrait of the tin tycoon, Simón I. Patiño has probably been the most successful.

He was a noted politician, serving as a deputy in Bolivian legislatures (three times: 1938, 1944, and 1956), and in diplomatic offices.