Luis Sepúlveda

Luis Sepúlveda was born on 4 October 1949 in Ovalle, Chile; his father was a member of the Communist Party. Arrested after the coup d'état of 1973, he spent two and a half years in prison, was sentenced to life imprisonment, then had his sentence commuted to exile thanks to Amnesty International; he left the country in 1977. He lived among the Shuars, joined the Sandinista revolution in Nicaragua in 1979, settled in Germany where he sailed with Greenpeace, then in Gijón in 1997. He died of covid on 16 April 2020 in Oviedo.

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• NovelThe Old Man Who Read Love StoriesUn viejo que leía novelas de amorLuis Sepúlveda · 1989Literature