Ernesto Sabato was born in Buenos Aires in 1911 and died in 2011. He published three novels-The Tunnel, On Heroes and Tombs, and Abaddon el Exterminador, which won the French Prix du Meilleur Livre Etranger and the Jerusalem Prize-and many volumes of essays. In 1985, he won the Miguel de Cervantes Prize "for four decades of literary endeavor".