Mario Benedetti

1920 - 2009

photo credits: Wikimedia Commons

movement: Generación del 45

genre: novel, short story, poetry, theatre, essay

country of citizenship: Uruguay

native language: Spanish

languages spoken, written or signed: Spanish

occupation: writer, journalist, poet, playwright, politician, novelist

award received: Order of Francisco de Miranda, honorary doctor of the University of Alicante, honorary doctorate of the University of Valladolid, Menéndez Pelayo International Prize, Morosoli Award, honorary doctor of the University of Havana

Mario Benedetti Farrugia (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈmaɾjo βeneˈðeti] ; 14 September 1920 – 17 May 2009), was a Uruguayan journalist, novelist, and poet and an integral member of the Generación del 45. Despite publishing more than 80 books and being published in twenty languages, he was not well known in the English-speaking world. In the Spanish-speaking world he is considered one of Latin America's most important writers of the latter half of the 20th century. Source: Wikipedia (en)