Mario Benedetti

Mario Benedetti was born on 14 September 1920 in Paso de los Toros, to parents of Italian descent; after his father's bankruptcy, the family settled in Tacuarembó, then in Montevideo. He worked from the age of fourteen, as a stenographer, then as an employee, and became a journalist in 1945, notably at the weekly Marcha, where he wrote until its closure in 1973. A member of the generation of 1945, he lived in exile from 1973, in Buenos Aires, Lima, Cuba and Spain. Back in Uruguay in 1985, he divided his life between Montevideo and Madrid and died in Montevideo on 17 May 2009.

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• NovelThe Truce: The Diary of Martín SantoméLa treguaMario Benedetti · 1960Literature