Mario Benedetti

Writing

Born: 1920-09-14
Died: 2009-05-17
From: Paso de los Toros, Tacuarembó, Uruguay
Gender: Male
Popularity: 0.1

Also Known As

Mario Orlando Hardy Hamlet Brenno Benedetti Farrugia

Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Mario Benedetti, was an Uruguayan journalist, novelist, and poet as well as being an integral member of the Generación del 45. In spite of publishing more than 80 books and being published in twenty languages he was not well known in the English-speaking world, but in the Spanish-speaking world he was considered one of Latin America's most important writers from the latter half of the 20th-century.

Awards & Nominations7 won · 0 nominated

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Menéndez Pelayo International Prize

2005
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Reina Sofía Award

1999
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honorary doctorate of the University of Valladolid

1997
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honorary doctor of the University of Havana

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Order of Francisco de Miranda

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honorary doctor of the University of Alicante

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Morosoli Award