writer Ernesto Sabato hundred years of solitude Death chronicle of a death

writer Ernesto Sabato hundred years of solitude Death chronicle of a death

Died Ernesto Sabato



BUENOS AIRES .- The writer Ernesto Sabato died this morning at 99 at his home in Santos Lugares, Buenos Aires, today confirmed his collaborator Elvira González Fraga. "It took 15 days as bronchitis and age that's terrible," he added. Sabato would be honored tomorrow at the Book Fair by the Instituto Cultural de Buenos Aires, on the eve of her 100th birthday, on 24th June.

The writer was also president of the National Commission on Disappeared People (CONADEP), where he worked with former Congresswoman Graciela Fernandez Meijide, who this morning said: "Sabato encouraged not only deal with the pain of suffering; with the fear of facing it. His death caused me great pain, but I have great pride in having worked with him. "

"He got angry easily with the things he felt were unfair," he said and highlighted the work of the writer in the preface of the book Never Again, which condemned the terrorist actions of the state and compiled the situation of thousands of people disappeared during the dictatorship.

Sabato was born in the locality of Rojas in 1911. He received a Ph.D. in Physics and Philosophy courses at the University of La Plata. Later worked at the Curie Laboratory in Paris, but in 1945 abandoned the science to devote himself to literature. He wrote three novels (The Tunnel, On Heroes and Tombs, and Abaddon the destroyer) and several essays.

His health was too delicate for many years. In 2005, retreated to his home, that almost never went out. He received several awards, including the Cervantes Prize, for "The Tunnel." (DyN-Special)




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