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Ernesto Sabato
Ernesto Sabato was an Argentine novelist, essayist, painter, and physicist. According to the BBC he "won some of the most prestigious prizes in Hispanic literature" and "became very influential in the literary world throughout Latin America". Upon his death El País dubbed him the "last classic writer in Argentine literature".
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culture · Argentine writer and physicist (1911–2011) · physicist · writer · painter · novelist · essayist · poet · teacher · also Ernesto Sabato, Ernesto R. Sabato, Ernesto Roque Sabato, Sabato
Born 24 June 1911 · Died 30 April 2011 · Q186630
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2011· 2 entries
The Washington Post: Ernesto Sabato, writer who led investigation of Argentina’s ‘Dirty War,’ dies at 99
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Died 2011-04-30.
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2002· 1 entry
Won Gold Medal of the Círculo de Bellas Artes (2002).
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1999· 1 entry
Acquired Italian citizenship in addition to his original Argentine nationality
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1997· 1 entry
Awarded Menéndez Pelayo International Prize (1997).
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1990· 1 entry
As The Writer in the Catastrophe of our Time
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1989· 1 entry
Awarded honorary doctorate of the University of Murcia (1989).
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1987· 1 entry
When his Complete Works were published, he ensured in the preface that this essay would appear in a new volume of political writings, which has not been published to this day
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1984· 2 entries
Awarded Miguel de Cervantes Prize (1984).
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Bearing the title Nunca Más (Never Again)
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1979· 2 entries
Awarded Knight of the Legion of Honour (1979).
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Sabato published Apologías y rechazos, challenging censorship
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1974· 1 entry
Awarded Gran Premio de Honor de la SADE (1974).
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1955· 1 entry
Sabato wrote in correspondence exchanged with Ernesto Che Guevara:
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1950· 1 entry
As The Outsider and again by Margaret Sayers Peden in 1988 as The Tunnel)
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1948· 1 entry
After being rejected by several Buenos Aires editors, Sabato published in Sur his first novel, El túnel, a psychological novel narrated in the first person
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1945· 2 entries
His second son, Mario Sabato was born
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His first book, Uno y el Universo, a series of essays criticizing the apparent moral neutrality of science and warning about dehumanization processes in technological societies, was published; with time he would turn tow
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1943· 1 entry
Due to an "existential crisis", he left science for good to become a full-time writer and painter
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1942· 1 entry
Working for Sur magazine reviewing books, he was put in charge of the "Calendario" section and participated in "Desagravio a Borges" in Sur nº 94
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1941· 1 entry
Sabato published his first literary work, an article about La invención de Morel by Adolfo Bioy Casares, in the magazine Teseo from La Plata
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1940· 1 entry
Came back to Argentina intent on leaving physics behind
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1939· 1 entry
Transferred to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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1938· 2 entries
Jorge Federico Sabato, his first son, was born
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Obtained his PhD in physics from the Universidad Nacional de La Plata
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1934· 1 entry
Started to doubt Communism and Joseph Stalin's regime
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1933· 2 entries
– of communist ideals – together with Héctor P
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Was elected Secretario General of the Federación Juvenil Comunista (Communist Youth Federation)
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1929· 1 entry
Started college, attending the School of Physics and Mathematics at the Universidad Nacional de La Plata
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1924· 1 entry
Finished primary school in Rojas and settled in the city of La Plata for his secondary education at the Colegio Nacional de La Plata
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1911· 1 entry
Born 1911-06-24.
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