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Mario Benedetti


Born
in Paso de los Toros, Uruguay
September 14, 1920

Died
May 17, 2009

Website

Genre
Literature & Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry

Influences
César Vallejo, Pablo Neruda, Antonio Machado, Maupassant, Horacio Quir ...more


Mario Benedetti (full name: Mario Orlando Hamlet Hardy Brenno Benedetti Farugia) was a Uruguayan journalist, novelist, and poet. Despite publishing more than 80 books and being published in twenty languages he was not well known in the English-speaking world. He is considered one of Latin America's most important 20th-century writers.

Benedetti was a member of the 'Generation of 45', a Uruguayan intellectual and literary movement and also wrote in the famous weekly Uruguayan newspaper Marcha from 1945 until it was forcibly closed by the military government in 1973, and was its literary director from 1954. From 1973 to 1985 he lived in exile, and returned to Uruguay in March 1983 following the restoration of democracy. ...more

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Primavera con una esquina rota
4.10 avg rating — 6,895 ratings — published 1982 — 58 editions
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El amor, las mujeres y la vida
4.23 avg rating — 5,853 ratings — published 1995 — 47 editions
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بقايا القهوة
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3.79 avg rating — 5,458 ratings — published 1992 — 48 editions
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Gracias por el fuego
4.03 avg rating — 3,737 ratings — published 1963 — 70 editions
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Pedro y el Capitán
4.16 avg rating — 2,990 ratings — published 1979 — 34 editions
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Quién de nosotros
3.71 avg rating — 3,101 ratings — published 1953 — 8 editions
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Antología poética
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4.40 avg rating — 1,568 ratings — published 1963 — 27 editions
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La muerte y otras sorpresas
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,519 ratings — published 1968 — 38 editions
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“Five minutes are enough to dream a whole life, that is how relative time is.”
― Mario Benedetti
tags: dreams, love, poetry, time
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“Tengo la horrible sensación de que pasa el tiempo y no hago nada y nada acontece, y nada me conmueve hasta la raíz”
― Mario Benedetti, La tregua
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“Ella me daba la mano y no hacía falta más. Me alcanzaba para sentir que era bien acogido. Más que besarla, más que acostarnos juntos, más que ninguna otra cosa, ella me daba la mano y eso era amor.”
― Mario Benedetti, La tregua
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Our penultimate book to finish our fabulous voyage through many of the Spanish-speaking countries of South and Central America will be representative of Uruguay. The next poll will be about Venezuela.

Image for Parque Rodó, Montevideo, named for "José Enrique Rodó, an important Uruguayan writer whose monument is in the southern side of the main park."

 
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Springtime in a Broken Mirror,Mario Benedetti (write-in)
 
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