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.

Author: Ernesto Sabato. ISBN-13: 978-0141194547. Publisher: ... On the recommendation of my son, I recently read the classic Argentine novel, The Tunnel, by Ernesto Sábato (1911-2011).

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina – Writer Ernesto Sabato, who led the government's probe of crimes committed by Argentina's dictatorship, has died at 99. The writer died of complications of bronchitis ...

Ernesto Sabato, Argentine writer who presided over probe of military rulers, dies at 99; ... wrote the acclaimed “The Tunnel,” first published in 1948, “On Heroes and Tombs” (1961) ...

Sabato published his first book, ‘One and the Universe,’ in 1945 and his first, brief novel, ‘The Tunnel,’ which was praised by Thomas Mann and also by Albert Camus, who had it translated ...

Argentinean writer Ernesto Sabato was born in Rojas, a city in the pampa, 240 km from Buenos Aires, on June 24th, ... He only wrote three novels (the first one was The Tunnel, ...

His first novel, The Tunnel, was published in 1949 by Victoria Ocampo's Sur imprint, ... Ernesto Roque Sabato, writer: born Rojas, Buenos Aires province, Argentina 24 June 1911; ...

Ernesto Sabato, the author of the existentialist classic “The Tunnel” and a tireless campaigner for human rights, has died in his native Argentina, local media say. He was 99.