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Ernesto Sabato

1911–2011 · 20th century

Ernesto Sabato was an Argentine writer and physicist, author of the novels The Tunnel (1948) and On Heroes and Tombs (1961). In 1983 President Raúl Alfonsín appointed him to chair the national commission on the disappeared, CONADEP, whose report Nunca Más documented the crimes of the military dictatorship.

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