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, Description and travel, Romance literature, Travel, Cats, Chile, fiction, DESCRIPCIONES Y VIAJES, Exiles, Flight, Gulls, History, Oil spills, Patagonia (Argentina and Chile), Cats -- Fiction., Cats, fiction, Children's fiction, Chilean Short stories, Chilean fiction, Continental european fiction (fictional works by one author), Country life, Cuentos chilenos, Exhiliados, Ficción, Ficción chilenaPlaces
Patagonia (Argentina and Chile), Chile, PATAGONIA (ARGENTINA Y CHILE), Ecuador, Patagonia, South AmericaID 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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