Ernesto Sábato

Ernesto Sabato was born in Rojas, in the province of Buenos Aires, on 24 June 1911, the tenth of eleven children. A doctor of physics from the University of La Plata in 1938, he worked the same year at the Curie laboratory in Paris, then gave up science in 1943, according to escritores.org. He published three novels, from 1948 to 1974. In 1984, he chaired the national commission on the disappearance of persons, whose report paved the way for the trial of the juntas. Winner of the Cervantes Prize in 1984 according to escritores.org, he died on 30 April 2011.

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• NovelThe TunnelEl túnelErnesto Sábato · 1948Literature