Chilean author, campaigner and escapee Luis Sepúlveda dies aged 70 of Covid-19
(The Guardian Books News)

Dramatic career took in escapes from Pinochet´s regime in the 70s, sailing with Greenpeace and writing books including The Old Man Who Read Love StoriesThe celebrated Chilean author Luis Sepúlveda, who was exiled by the dictator Augusto Pinochet in the 1980s, has died from Covid-19.Best known for his 1992 novel The Old Man Who Read Love Stories and 1996´s The Story of a Seagull and The Cat Who Taught Her To Fly, Sepúlveda died in hospital on Thursday. He first began showing symptoms from coronavirus on 25 February, after returning to his home in Spain from a festival in Portugal. On 1 March, it was confirmed that Sepúlveda was the first case of Covid-19 in the Asturias region, where he had lived for 20 years. Continue reading...