Ernesto Sabato was born June 24, 1911, in Rojas, a small town in the pampas about 160 miles from Buenos Aires. He was the 10th of 11 children born to Italian immigrants who owned the local flour mill.

Writer Ernesto Sabato, who led the government’s probe of crimes committed by Argentina’s dictatorship, has died. He was 99.

Argentine writer Ernesto Sabato, whose novel "The Tunnel" is hailed as an existentialist classic and who presided over a probe into the crimes committed by the nation's military rulers, died on ...

Ernesto Sabato, Argentine writer who presided over probe of military rulers, dies at 99; Henry Cooper, British boxer who once floored fighter then known as Cassius Clay, ...

Ernesto Roque Sabato, writer: born Rojas, Buenos Aires province, Argentina 24 June 1911; married 1936 Matilde Kusminsky (one son, and one son deceased); died Santos Lugares, ...

Ernesto Sábato, who died on April 30 aged 99, was one of the greatest Spanish-language writers of the 20th century; he also chaired a commission of inquiry into the abuses of Argentina’s ...

Argentinean writer Ernesto Sabato was born in Rojas, a city in the pampa, 240 km from Buenos Aires, on June 24th, 1911, in a large and demanding family of Calabrese immigrants.

Ernesto Sabato, a prize-winning Argentine novelist and essayist who led a ground-breaking probe into abuses under the country's military dictatorship, died Saturday at his home.

Writer Ernesto Sabato, who led the government's probe of crimes committed by Argentina's dictatorship, has died at 99.