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Mario Benedetti

Sep 14, 1920 - May 17, 2009 (88 years old) in Paso de los Toros, Tacuarembó, Uruguay

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Mario Benedetti, was an Uruguayan journalist, novelist, and poet as well as being an integral member of the Generación del 45. In spite of publishing more than 80 books and being published in twenty languages he was not well known in the English-speaking world, but in the Spanish-speaking world he was considered one of Latin America's most important writers from the latter half of the 20th-century.

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Words of Truth
Self
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The Dark Side of the Heart
Sailor that recites in German
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País verde y herido
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Onetti, Portrait of a Writer
Self

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