Ernesto Sabato

Ernesto Sabato was born in Buenos Aires in 1911 and died in 2011. He published three novels-- The Tunnel , On Heroes and Tombs , and Abaddon el Exterminador , which won the French Prix du Meilleur Livre Etranger and the Jerusalem Prize--and many volumes of essays. In 1985, he won the Miguel de Cervantes Prize "for four decades of literary endeavor".

Ernesto Sabato was born in Buenos Aires in 1911 and died in 2011. He published three novels-- The Tunnel , On Heroes and Tombs , and Abaddon el Exterminador , which won the French Prix du Meilleur Livre Etranger and the Jerusalem Prize--and many volumes of essays. In 1985, he won the Miguel de Cervantes Prize "for four decades of literary endeavor". See less