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writer Ernesto Sabato died: farewell to the great Argentine writer

El escritor argentino Ernesto Sábato falleció este sábado en la tranquilidad de su casa de Santos Lugares, a los 99 años

Políticos, intelectuales y decenas de vecinos acompañan en el Club Defensores de Santos Lugares a familiares the writer.

bronchitis. His late wife Elvira González Fraga, confirmed the death of the author of The Tunnel. "15 days ago had bronchitis at the age of him this is terrible," she said in dialogue with Mitre radio. Sabato
was to be honored this Sunday at the Book Fair to be held in the grounds of the Rural in Buenos Aires. The celebration on behalf of the author was to take place since that June 24 would be 100 years old. Sabato
The wake will begin at 17 at the headquarters of Club Atlético Defensores de Santos Lugares, located in Langeri to 3100, Holy Places, in front of the house where the writer died this morning.
The viewing room will be open until las 24 horas de hoy y reabrirá mañana de 7 a 12, hasta que parta el cortejo fúnebre.
Asimismo, se anunció que a las 14 horas su hijo, Mario Sábato, ofrecerá una conferencia de prensa en la sede del Club Santos Lugares.
Su obra. Galardonado con el Premio Cervantes en 1984, el escritor llegó a ser propuesto por la Sociedad General de Autores y Editores de España como candidato al Premio Nobel de Literatura de 2007.
"Me salvó el arte y por eso mi arte es trágico", reconoció en 1992 el autor de Sobre Héroes y Tumbas a la revista Newsweek, a la que confesó que estuvo dos veces tentado de suicidarse. Afín al socialismo, Sábato también fue reconocido por su defensa a los derechos human.
In 1984 he chaired the National Commission on Disappeared Persons (Conadep) which drafted the "Report Sabato" and never about the horrors of the last military dictatorship (1976-1983).

also wrote letters to public opinion against terrorism of ETA and essays on the plight of children.
Humanity is experiencing a "time of immorality," he warned in late 2000 on a text for the United Nations Fund for Children (Unicef).
The foreword to the report Nunca Más Sabato earned strong criticism from humanitarian agencies who question the "theory of two evils" on violence policy that hit 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."
"Our children were not demons. They were revolutionaries, guerrillas, wonderful and unique to defend the homeland," said the president of the Mothers of Plaza de Mayo, Hebe de Bonafini, during a speech on March 24, 2006, when the 30th anniversary of the coup. "(...) What made Sabato is a mess but his thinking is, "said Bonafini.
But beyond the controversy, posture, committed Sabato does not detract from readers: his essay "The Resistance (2000), which was first published on the Internet despite the objections of the writer to every means that globalization was a success and the first printed edition of 100,000 copies, sold out quickly.
International fame came in 1961 with the novel On Heroes and Tombs and the consecration in 1974 with Abaddon the destroyer, which was awarded in France, where he was named Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres. These two works
completed a trilogy with his first novel, The Tunnel (1948), whose version was adapted to the landscapes of Spain in April 2006.
before turning to literature, Sabato studied physics at the Universidad Nacional de la Plata and between 1938 and 1939 he worked fellow at the Curie Laboratory in Paris.
On his return to Argentina, in 1940, he taught and published his first book, a collection of essays entitled One and the Universe, in 1945, when he abandoned his scientific career to devote himself to literature.
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.
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).
But one of the most emotional recognition of his life that filled with tears his face came in 2004 when he was honored with repeated ovations during the Third Congress of Language, in the city of Rosario (Argentina).