Luis Sepulveda died

On April 16, the Chilean writer and journalist Luis Sepulveda died in Ovedo at the age of 70.

According to El País , the cause of the death of one of the most read in Europe Latin American writers was coronavirus infection.

Luis Sepulveda was born in 1949 in the city of Ovalier, studied at the National Institute in Santiago de Chili, where he became an activist of the student movement. After the 1973 military coup, he repeatedly arrested, was sentenced to life imprisonment for “subversive activities”, fled to Uruguay, then to Brazil, Paraguay and Ecuador. He organized a theater group in Kito and participated in the study of the life of Indian tribes.

In 1979 he joined the Simon Bolivar brigade and took part in the Sandinist Revolution. After the victory of the revolution, he settled in Hamburg, joined the environmental movement, worked as a journalist of the Greenpeace organization, acted as a screenwriter and film director. Since 1996 he lived in Spain.

At the age of 17, Luis Sepulveda opposed the first collection of poems, at 20 - the first collection of stories. The novel “The Old Man who read love novels” (1988), inspired by the experience of the author’s life with the Khivaro Indians, brought world fame to the writer. Since then, his novels, books about travel, stories and articles have been translated into many foreign languages.

Laureate of a number of literary awards, including the Gabriela Mistral Poetic Prize (1976) and the Felger International Prize (Spain, 1990).