16 Facts About Ernesto Sabato

Ernesto Sabato was born in Rojas, a small town in Buenos Aires Province.

Ernesto Sabato began his studies at the Colegio Nacional de La Plata.

Ernesto Sabato then studied physics at the Universidad Nacional de La Plata, where he earned a PhD.

Ernesto Sabato then attended the Sorbonne in Paris and worked at the Curie Institute.

Ernesto Sabato's oeuvre includes three novels: El Tunel, Sobre heroes y tumbas and Abaddon el exterminador.

Ernesto Sabato's essays cover topics as diverse as metaphysics, politics and tango.

Ernesto Sabato's writings led him to receive many international prizes, including the Miguel de Cervantes Prize, the Legion of Honour, the Jerusalem Prize, and the Prix du Meilleur Livre Etranger.

Ernesto Sabato was born in Rojas, Buenos Aires Province, son of Francesco Sabato and Giovanna Maria Ferrari, Italian immigrants from Calabria.

Ernesto Sabato's father was from Fuscaldo, and his mother was an Arbereshe from San Martino di Finita.

Ernesto Sabato was the tenth of a total of 11 children.

However, serving an obligation to those responsible for his fellowship Ernesto Sabato started teaching at the Universidad de La Plata for Engineering admission, and relativity and quantum mechanics for post graduate degrees.

In 1941, Ernesto Sabato published his first literary work, an article about La invencion de Morel by Adolfo Bioy Casares, in the magazine Teseo from La Plata.

Ernesto Sabato published articles in La Nacion and a translation of The Birth and Death of the Sun by George Gamow.

In 1948, after being rejected by several Buenos Aires editors, Ernesto Sabato published in Sur his first novel, El tunel, a psychological novel narrated in the first person.

Ernesto Sabato died in Santos Lugares on April 30,2011, two months short of his 100th birthday.

Ernesto Sabato's death was the result of bronchitis, according to his companion and collaborator Elvira Gonzalez Fraga.