The author of the book “The seagull and the cat” dies – Ansa /Courier TV
Luis Sepulveda is also admitted to hospital in Oviedo (Spain) since the end of February. This was first reported by the Spanish agency Efe, which cites sources close to the family. Prisoner in the prisons of Augusto Pinochet, fighter, ecologist and political exile, the Chilean writer was 71 years old. Author of “Story of a seagull and the cat that taught her to fly” and “The old man who read love novels”. He talked about Latin America with the nostalgic voice of the exiles. In the novel “The world at the end of the world” he tells of the adventure aboard a ship of Greenpeace, an organization he joined in the 1980s. He had twice married poet Carmen Yáñez, with whom he contracted the virus during the Correntes d’Éscritas literary festival in Póvoa de Varzim, Portugal. With Sepulveda one of the voices that best represented an entire continent disappears.
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