Ernesto Sabato (pronounced / Sabato /) 2 (Rojas, June 24, 1911-Holy Places; April 30, 2011) 3 was a writer, essayist, physicist and Argentine painter. His narrative work consists of three novels: The tunnel, Abaddon the destroyer and On Heroes and Tombs, considered one of the best Argentine novels of the twentieth century. He has also written essays on the human condition: One and the Universe, Men and gears, writer and his ghosts, Apologies and rejections, among others. It was the second Argentine awarded the Miguel de Cervantes Prize (1984), after Jorge Luis Borges (1979).

Its long existence led him to be a very present author during the last century and during the first decade of current. Although it was prepared to engage in physical and research in this field, their approach to the surrealist movement, especially writers and artists of this current, twisted somehow his destiny and finally giving vent to his concerns as a writer. His existentialist vision-reflected in the dark plots of his novels peopled with characters lost their moral values, 4 his way to present ideas and concepts, their rhetoric ease and wisdom when introduced into the psychology of individuals, they erected in one of the large feathers of his time and of his country.