Mario Benedetti
Known for WritingBorn 1920-09-14 — died 2009-05-17Paso 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.
