Author · Uruguay
Juan Carlos Onetti
Died in 1994
Juan Carlos Onetti was born on 1 July 1909 in Montevideo, the son of a customs official and of a mother of Brazilian origin. He left school without a diploma and at around twenty went to Buenos Aires, where he sold calculating machines. Editorial secretary of the weekly Marcha from 1939, he then worked for the Reuters agency, again in Buenos Aires until 1955, then ran the municipal libraries of Montevideo. In 1974, as a member of the jury of a Marcha competition, he was imprisoned, then settled in Madrid. Winner of the Cervantes Prize in 1980, he died in Madrid on 30 May 1994.
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- NovelA Brief LifeLa vida breveJuan Carlos Onetti · 1950Literature