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Luis Sepúlveda
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How Did Luis Sepúlveda Die?

Life & Death

Died aged 70
GenderMaleNationalityChileBorn04/10/1949Born inOvalle, CileDied16/04/2020 (aged 70)Died inOviedo CityCauseCOVID-19WikidataQ334126 ↗TMDb#550262 ↗

Luis Sepúlveda Calfucura was a Chilean writer and journalist. A communist militant and fervent opponent of Augusto Pinochet's regime, he was imprisoned and tortured by the military dictatorship during the 1970s. Sepúlveda authored numerous poetry books and short stories; in addition to Spanish, his mother tongue, he also spoke English, the language in which he wrote his first novel, El viejo que leía novelas de amor.

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Filmography4 titles

YearTitleCharacterAge at
release
2011Luis Sepúlveda, l'écrivain du bout du mondeMovieHimself62
2004Clan Banlieue, 1992-2004: La Grande Famiglia in MovimentoMovie—55
2000Bibo per sempreMoviebarbone51
1998Lucky and ZorbaMoviePoeta (voice)49