Ernesto Sabato is remembered for writing that changed what came after it.
The record lists Ernesto Sabato as Argentine writer, painter and physicist (1911-2011).
Ernesto Sabato was born at Caucete in 1911. His recorded nationality is Argentina. He was educated at National University of La Plata and Harvard University.
Around the turn of the twentieth century, literary form itself came under argument, and the certainties of the realist novel were dismantled.
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The writing is recorded in Spanish.
His work is classed as essay.
Among his best-known works are El Túnel, On Heroes and Tombs and Abaddón el exterminador. Reputation in letters is unusually volatile: writers are forgotten for a generation and then recovered by one.
The honours record reads: Knight of the Legion of Honour (1979), Menéndez Pelayo International Prize (1997), Miguel de Cervantes Prize (1984) and Gold Medal of the Círculo de Bellas Artes (2002).
That the work was written from Argentina matters: language, censorship and the reach of a publishing industry decide which books travel and which stay local.
Ernesto Sabato died in 2011, aged 100. The books remain, which is the only durable form a writing life takes.
Achievements
- Knight of the Legion of Honour — 1979
- Menéndez Pelayo International Prize — 1997
- Miguel de Cervantes Prize — 1984
- Gold Medal of the Círculo de Bellas Artes — 2002
- Notable work: El Túnel
- Notable work: On Heroes and Tombs
- Notable work: Abaddón el exterminador
- Genres: essay
