Mario Benedetti
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 Uruguayan writer; one of Latin America's best known writers
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| Born | September 14, 1920 Paso de los Toros, Uruguay |
Mario Benedetti (born September 14, 1920) is an Uruguayan journalist, novelist, and poet.
Benedetti was born in Paso de los Toros, Tacuarembó;, Uruguay. He is not well known in the English-speaking world, but in the Spanish-speaking world he is considered one of Latin America's most important living writers. In 1946 he married Luz López Alegre.
From 1973 to 1985, when a military dictatorship ruled Uruguay, Benedetti lived in exile in Buenos Aires, Lima, Havana, and Spain. He currently divides his time between Montevideo and Madrid. He has been granted Honoris Causa doctorates by the Universidad de la República, Uruguay, and the Universidad de Alicante, Spain. On June 7, 2005 he was named as the recipient of the Premio Menéndez Pelayo.
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[edit] Works
[edit] Poetry
- La víspera indeleble (1945) (first published book)
- Poemas de oficina (1956)
- La casa y el ladrillo (1977)
- El amor, las mujeres y la vida. Poemas de amor (1996)
- La vida ese parentesis (1997)
- Defensa propia (2004) (ISBN 950-731-438-5)
- Little Stones At My Window (Bilingual edition; translation and introduction by Charles Hatfield) (ISBN 1-880684-90-X)
[edit] Short stories
- Montevideanos (1960)
- Aquí se respira bien
- Los pocillos
- Acaso irreparable
- Jules y Jim
- Escrito en Überlingen
- El reino de los cielos
- Miss Amnesia
[edit] Essays
- El país de la cola de paja (1960)
[edit] Novels
- La tregua (1960)
- Gracias por el fuego (1965)
- El cumpleaños de Juan Angel (1971)
- Primavera con una esquina rota (1982)
- Vientos del exilio (1982)
- Geografías (1984)
- Las soledades de Babel (1991)
- Andamios (1996)
[edit] Plays
- Pedro y el capitán (1979)
