# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/luis-sepulveda
# Generated: 2026-08-14T00:01:32.598Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/luis-sepulveda"
name: "Luis Sepúlveda"
slug: "luis-sepulveda"
description: "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."
tagline: "Chilean writer (1949–2020)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Luis_Sep%C3%BAlveda_2014.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
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profileType:
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  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1949-10-04"
deathDate: "2020-04-16"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump