death_date children signature_alt birth_date period signature genre education alma_mater death_place influences imagesize spouse image citizenship name occupation birth_place awards notableworks article_title
30 april 2011 jorge federico sabato mario sabato `` e. sabato '' 24 june 1911 1941 -- 2004 firma-sabato . jpg novel , essay phd in physics universidad nacional de la plata santos lugares , buenos aires province , argentina existentialism , tolstoy , baudelaire , goethe , pavese ; kierkegaard , dostoyevsky , nietzsche , kafka 200px matilde kusminsky richter -lrb- 1936 -- 1998 -rrb- ernestosabato001.jpg argentine ernesto sabato novelist and essayist , painter rojas , buenos aires province , argentina , legion de cervantes prize jerusalem prize of honour prix du meilleur livre Étranger miguel '' '' '' abaddón el exterminador '' el túnel '' '' sobre héroes y tumbas ernesto sabato

ernesto sabato

ernesto sabato -lrb- june 24 , 1911 -- april 30 , 2011 -rrb- was an argentine writer , 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 '' .
sabato was distinguished by his bald pate and brush moustache and wore tinted spectacles and open-necked shirts .
he was born in rojas , a small town in buenos aires province .
sabato began his studies at the colegio nacional de la plata .
he then studied physics at the universidad nacional de la plata , where he earned a phd .
he then attended the sorbonne in paris and worked at the curie institute .
after world war ii , he lost interest in science and started writing .
sabato 's oeuvre includes three novels : `` el túnel '' -lrb- 1948 -rrb- , `` sobre héroes y tumbas '' -lrb- 1961 -rrb- and `` abaddón el exterminador '' -lrb- 1974 -rrb- .
the first of these received critical acclaim upon its publication from , among others , fellow writers albert camus and thomas mann .
the second is regarded as his masterpiece , though he nearly burnt it like many of his other works .
sabato 's essays cover topics as diverse as metaphysics , politics and tango .
his writings led him to receive many international prizes , including the legion of honour -lrb- france -rrb- , the prix du meilleur livre Étranger -lrb- france -rrb- and the miguel de cervantes prize -lrb- spain -rrb- .
on the request of president raúl alfonsín he presided over the conadep commission that investigated the fate of those who suffered forced disappearance during the dirty war of the 1970s .
the result of these findings was published in 1984 bearing the title `` nunca más '' -lrb- `` never again '' -rrb- .
