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Paso de los Toros, Uruguay |
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From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia
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.
During the 1970s, 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.
Poetry
- La vÃspera 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 9507314385)
- Little Stones At My Window (Bilingual edition; translation and introduction by Charles Hatfield) (ISBN 188068490X)
Short stories
Essays
- El paÃs de la cola de paja (1960)
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)
- GeografÃas (1984)
- Las soledades de Babel (1991)
- Andamios (1996)
Plays
- Pedro y el capitán (1979)
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