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Omar Saavedra Santis

Chilean writer (1944–2021) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Omar Saavedra Santis
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Omar Saavedra Santis (15 July 1944 – 23 December 2021) was a Chilean writer. He spent many years in exile in Europe after the CIA-backed coup that toppled the government of Salvador Allende in 1973. He won numerous literary prizes, among them the Anna Seghers Prize. His daughter is the actress Catalina Saavedra.[1]

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Saavedra died on 23 December 2021, at the age of 77.[2]

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