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Fernando Savater was born in San Sebastián, Guipúzcoa in 1947.  He is currently a Philosophy professor in the Complutense University of Madrid, where he also studied his major.  He is the author of multiple philosophical, literary, and political essays, novels, and screenplays, which have been translated into various languages.  He has received, among others, the National Prize for Essay (1982), the X Anagrama Prize for Essay and was a finalist for  the Planeta Prize (1993) with the novel El jardín de las dudas (The Garden of Doubts).  He is the co-director of the magazine Claves de razón práctica and is a frequent collaborator of the newspaper El País and other publications.  He has travelled throughout Europe, Asia, and the American continent as a visiting professor and lecturer.