Don't forget to visit our webpage www.spanishizer.com / Your Spanish Specialist! Ernesto Sabato (June 24, 1911 – April 30, 2011) was an Argentine novelist , essayist , painter and physicist . According to the BBC he "won some of the most prestigious prizes in Hispanic literature" and "became very influential in the literary world throughout Latin America". [2] Upon his death El País dubbed him the "last classic writer in Argentine literature". [3] Sabato was distinguished by his bald pâté and brush moustache and wore tinted spectacles and open-necked shirts. [4] He was born in Rojas, a small town in Buenos Aires Province . Sabato began his studies at the Colegio Nacional de La Plata . He then studied physics at the Universidad Nacional de La Plata , where he earned a PhD. He then attended the Sorbonne in Paris and worked at the Curie Institute . Afte...