Argentinian hero Ernesto Sábato has died

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The Argentinian writer Ernesto Sábato has died at the age of 99. Sábato, whose "The Tunnel" is hailed as an existentialist classic, was viewed as a hero by many of his compatriots. At the end of Argentina's military rule, he was chosen to preside over the National Commission of the Disappeared, a probe into crimes committed by the Junta. ... http://www.euronews.net/