Mario Benedetti

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Mario Benedetti

Born September 14, 1920 (1920-09-14) (age 87)
Paso de los Toros, Uruguay
Nationality Uruguayan

Mario Benedetti (born September 14, 1920) is an Uruguayan journalist, novelist, and poet.

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[edit] Biography

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 y Pelayo.

More recently, on January 26, 2006, Mario Benedetti, joined other internationally renowned figures such as Gabriel García Márquez, Ernesto Sábato, Thiago de Mello, Eduardo Galeano, Carlos Monsiváis, Pablo Armando Fernández, Jorge Enrique Adoum, Pablo Milanés, Luis Rafael Sánchez, Mayra Montero and Ana Lydia Vega, in demanding sovereignty for Puerto Rico and joining the Latin American and Caribbean Congress for the Independence of Puerto Rico, which approved a resolution favoring the island-nation's right to assert its independence, as ratified unanimously by political parties from hailing from twenty two Latin American countries in November of 2006; García Márquez's demand for the recognition of Puerto Rico's independence was obtained at the behest of the Puerto Rican Independence Party.

[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)
  • Insomnios y Duermevelas (2002) (ISBN 84-7522-959-X)
  • 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)

Poemas de otros Noción de Patria

[edit] Short stories

  • Montevideanos (1960)
  • Aquí se respira bien
  • Los pocillos
  • Acaso irreparable
  • Escrito en Überlingen
  • El reino de los cielos
  • Miss Amnesia
  • "Una carta de amor"

[edit] Essays

  • El país de la cola de paja (1960)
  • "La Coleccion"

[edit] Novels

  • La tregua (1960)
  • Gracias por el fuego (1965)
  • El cumpleaños de Juan Angel (1971)
  • Quién de Nosotros (1976)
  • Primavera con una esquina rota (1982)
  • Vientos del exilio (1982)
  • Geografías (1984)
  • Las soledades de Babel (1991)
  • La borra del café (1993)
  • Andamios (1996)
  • El porvenir de mi pasado (2003)

[edit] Plays

  • Pedro y el capitán (1979)
  • Ida y Vuelta (1958)

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