![]() 1991: Las soledades de Babel ("The Loneliness of Babel").1988: Yesterday y mañana ("Yesterday and Tomorrow").1986: Preguntas al azar ("Random Questions").1981: Viento del exilio ("Wind of the exile").1977: La casa y el ladrillo ("The House and the Brick").Poemas del hoy por hoy ("Poems of Today").1956: Poemas de oficina ("Office Poems").1945: La víspera indeleble ("Indelible Eve"), his first published book.In 2006, his wife Luz López died, ending more than six decades of matrimony.īefore dying he dictated to his personal secretary, Ariel Silva, what would become his last poem: ![]() In the last ten years of his life Benedetti suffered from asthma and spent his winters in Madrid where it was summer in order to avoid the cold, though as his health deteriorated he eventually remained in Montevideo. In 2006, Mario Benedetti signed a petition in support of the independence of Puerto Rico from the United States. His poetry was also used in the 1992 Argentine movie The Dark Side of the Heart ( El lado oscuro del corazón) in which he read some of his poems in German. On 7 June 2005, he was named the recipient of the Menéndez Pelayo International Prize. In 1986 he was awarded Laureate Of The International Botev Prize. He has been granted Honoris Causa doctorates by the Universidad de la República, Uruguay, the Universidad de Alicante, Spain and the Universidad de Valladolid, Spain. In 1980, he moved to Palma, Majorca.īenedetti returned to Uruguay in March 1985 following the restoration of democracy, and thereafter divided his time between Montevideo and Madrid. His exile was made particularly trying by the fact that his wife had to remain in Uruguay to look after both of their mothers. He went to Cuba in 1976 and the following year to Madrid, Spain. He first went to Buenos Aires, Argentina, and then to Lima, Peru where he was detained, deported and then given amnesty. Exile, 1973 to 1985 įor 12 years, from 1973 to 1985, when a civic-military dictatorship ruled Uruguay, Benedetti lived in exile. In 1957, he traveled to Europe and visited nine countries as a correspondent for Marcha weekly magazine and El Diario newspaper. He wrote for the weekly Uruguayan newspaper Marcha from 1945 until it was forcibly closed by the military government in 1973, and was its literary director from 1954. He was a member of the ' Generation of 45', an Uruguayan intellectual and literary movement which included Carlos Maggi, Manuel Flores Mora, Ángel Rama, Emir Rodríguez Monegal, Idea Vilariño, Carlos Real de Azúa, José Pedro Díaz, Amanda Berenguer, Ida Vitale, Líber Falco, Juan Carlos Onetti, among others. He worked in different professions on both banks of the Río de la Plata river, for example, as a stenographer. From 19 he lived in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He trained as a journalist with Carlos Quijano, in the weekly Marcha. At the age of 14 he began working, first as a stenographer and then as a seller, public officer, accountant, journalist, broadcaster and translator. In those years he learned shorthand, which was his livelihood for a long time. For two years afterwards he studied at Liceo Miranda, but for the rest of his high school years he did not attend an educational institution. ![]() His father immediately removed him from the school when Nazi ideology started featuring in the classroom. Mario completed six years of primary school at the Deutsche Schule Montevideo, where he also learned German, which later allowed him to be the first translator of Franz Kafka in Uruguay. Two years later, they moved to Tacuarembó, the capital city of the province, and shortly after that, his father tried to buy a chemist’s but was swindled and went into bankruptcy, so they moved and settled in Montevideo, the capital city of the country, where they lived in difficult economic conditions. Early life and education īenedetti was born 1920 in Paso de los Toros in the Uruguayan Tacuarembó Department to Brenno Benedetti, a pharmaceutical and chemical winemaker and Matilde Farrugia who were of Italian descent. ![]() In the Spanish-speaking world he is considered one of Latin America's most important writers of the latter half of the 20th century. Despite publishing more than 80 books and being published in twenty languages he was not well known in the English-speaking world. Mario Benedetti Farrugia ( Spanish pronunciation: ( listen) 14 September 1920 – ), was an Uruguayan journalist, novelist, and poet and an integral member of the Generación del 45.
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