Mario Benedetti

For other uses, see Mario Benedetti (Italian poet).

Mario Benedetti
Benedetti in 1981
Benedetti in 1981
Born(1920-09-14)14 September 1920
Paso de los Toros
Died17 May 2009(2009-05-17) (aged 88)
Montevideo
OccupationWriter
NationalityUruguayan
EducationDeutsche Schule Montevideo
Plaque at the Suns of the Paseo de los Soles, Montevideo, Uruguay

Mario Benedetti Farrugia[1] (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈmaɾjo βeneˈðeti] ⓘ; 14 September 1920 – 17 May 2009),[2] 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.[3] In the Spanish-speaking world, he is considered one of Latin America's most important writers of the latter half of the 20th century.[4]

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