Il Tempo: Premio alla memoria del poeta uruguayano Mario Benedetti
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Mario Benedetti
Mario Benedetti Farrugia, was a Uruguayan journalist, novelist, and poet and an integral member of the Generación del 45. Despite publishing more than 80 books and being published in twenty languages, he was not well known in the English-speaking world. In the Spanish-speaking world, he is considered one of Latin America's most important writers of the latter half of the 20th century.
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culture · Uruguayan journalist, novelist, and poet (1920–2009) · writer · journalist · poet · playwright · politician · novelist · short story writer · translator · also Mario Benedetti, Mario Orlando Hardy Hamlet Brenno Benedetti Farrugia, Hamlet Brenna Benedetti Farrugia, Benedetti
Born 14 September 1920 · Died 17 May 2009 · Q16285
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2009· 1 entry
Died 2009-05-17.
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2006· 1 entry
His wife Luz López died, ending more than six decades of matrimony
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2005· 1 entry
Awarded Menéndez Pelayo International Prize (2005).
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1999· 1 entry
Awarded Reina Sofía Award (1999).
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1997· 1 entry
Awarded honorary doctorate of the University of Valladolid (1997).
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1986· 1 entry
Was awarded Laureate Of The International Botev Prize
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1960· 1 entry
Benedetti published what would become his best-known novel, La Tregua (The Truce)
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1957· 1 entry
Traveled to Europe and visited nine countries as a correspondent for Marcha weekly magazine and El Diario newspaper
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1920· 1 entry
Born 1920-09-14.
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