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dies Argentine writer Ernesto Sabato
The author of 'The tunnel' has died at his home at 99 years old
COUNTRY / AGENCY - Madrid - 30/04/2011


Argentine writer Ernesto Sabato died this morning at his home in the city of holy places (Argentina), has confirmed to Radio Mitre Argentina fellow Elvira González Fraga. "For fifteen days he had bronchitis and that his age is terrible," he explained. The considered example of the Argentine letters most internationally was 99 and June 24 was to celebrate its centenary. In fact, would be honored tomorrow at the Book Fair and the Cultural Institute of the province of Buenos Aires.

"My name is Ernesto ..."
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Sabato was born in Rojas, Buenos Aires, in 1911. Also a novelist and essayist, was a doctor in physics. He worked at the Curie Laboratory in Paris, and finally abandoned science in 1945 to devote himself exclusively to literature. In 1984 he received the Cervantes Prize, the largest English-language literature, and came to be proposed by the General Society of Authors and Publishers of Spain as a candidate for the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2007.

His most recurring topics were responsible for the crisis of man in our time and thinking about literature itself. His most notable works are The writer and his ghosts (1963), and rejections Apologies (1979), The Tunnel (1948), On Heroes and Tombs (1961), and Abaddon the destroyer (1974). His last published work was Spain in the papers of my age, the result of travel in 2002 to English lands as Argentina plunged into the fiercest economic crisis in its history.

Notably strong political commitment and ethics together in his work. In 1984 he chaired the National Commission on Disappeared Persons who wrote the report or never Sabato on the horrors of the last military dictatorship (1976-1983), who opened the door for the trial of the military juntas of the military dictatorship in 1985. The foreword to the report earned him harsh criticism from humanitarian agencies who question the "theory of two evils" on the political violence that shook Argentina in 1970. In the text, the writer said that in the 70 Argentina "was convulsed by a terror that came both from the extreme right and extreme left." Sabato

also filled his time with painting, but confessed that his "self-destructive spirit" led him to destroy much of their work. "Carried away by friends," he declared, had a dozen of his works in 1989 at the Centre Pompidou in Paris and just as he did later in Madrid.

Argentine writer went through difficult times in your life with death in 1995 the eldest of his two sons, George, in a traffic accident and the death in 1998 of his first wife, Matilde.

Among the many awards received by Sabato also include the Menéndez Pelayo (1997) and Gabriela Mistral (1983), awarded by the Organization of American States (OAS).