Luis Sepúlveda Calfucura (October 4, 1949 – April 16, 2020) was a Chilean writer and journalist. A communist militant and fervent opponent of Augusto Pinochet's regime, he was imprisoned and tortured by the military dictatorship during the 1970s. Sepúlveda was author of poetry books and short stories; in addition to Spanish, his mother tongue, he also spoke English, French and Italian. In the late 1980s, he conquered the literary scene with his first novel, The Old Man Who Read Love Novels.
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Fiction, Fiction, general, Romance literature, Cats, Description and travel, Flight, Gulls, Oil spills, Travel, Ficción, History, Juvenile fiction, Novela chilena, Politics and government, Chile, fiction, Chilean Short stories, Chilean fiction, Cuentos chilenos, DESCRIPCIONES Y VIAJES, Exiles, Patagonia (Argentina and Chile), Spanish fiction, Adaptations, Ajusticiamientos y verdugos, Arabian nightsPlaces
Chile, Patagonia (Argentina and Chile), PATAGONIA (ARGENTINA Y CHILE), Ecuador, Patagonia, South AmericaPeople
Luis Sepúlveda (1949-), Augusto Pinochet Ugarte, Carlo Petrini (1949-), Luis Sepl͠veda (1949-)ID Numbers
- OLID: OL286312A
- ISNI: 0000000122783761
- VIAF: 36962211
- Wikidata: Q334126
- Inventaire.io: wd:Q334126
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- Luis Sepúlveda
- Luis Sepulveda
- Luis Sepúlveda
- Luis
- Translated from the Spanish by Bush, Peter Sepulveda
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