Theatre production at the University of Chile in Santiago. The son of aĬhilean Communist Party militant and a nurse of Mapuche origin, he studied The figure of Sepúlveda gave a new face to that engageé literature.”īecoming this new Latin American literary sensation, Sepúlveda had worked asĮverything from a kitchen porter to an ecological activist. There wasĪlready a long tradition of Latin American exiles in France, and in some way He was anĮxample of how the publishing industry was becoming globalised. “Sepúlveda was a success in France before he was published in Spanish. It had previously beenīrought out in France, and as the Gallimard editor Gustavo Guerrero recalls: In Frankfurt, and which she went on to publish in 1993. This was the book Beatriz de Moura mentioned International success with his novel Un viejo que leía novelas de amor Terrible to see that the virus is such a killer.”īegan writing poems and short stories in his native, but became a huge He was veryĪctive in the annual Semana Negra of crime writing in Gijón, and in theįestival of Ibero-American literature organized every year in Asturias. “We’re really saddened by his death,” said the His death brought expressions of sadness from literary figures in Italy,įrance, Germany and Spain. He was diagnosed with the illness at the end ofįebruary on his return from a literary festival in Portugal.
Universitario Central de Asturias, after a struggle lasting several weeksĪgainst the Covid-19 virus. Sepúlveda (Ovalle, Chile, 1949) died on Thursday 16 April in the Hospital Laughing, the journalist admitted it was him. The book was by someoneĬalled Luis Sepúlveda. Publishers asked a Chilean journalist living in Germany if he had heard of aĬhilean writer who was having great success in France. Frankfurt Book Fair early in the 1990s, Beatriz de Moura from Tusquets
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