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Mario Orlando Hardy Hamlet Brenno Benedetti Farrugia[1] (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈmaɾjo βeneˈðeti] (listen); 14 September 1920 – 17 May 2009),[2] was an 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.[3] In the Spanish-speaking world he is considered one of Latin America's most important writers of the latter half of the 20th century.[4]

Mario Benedetti
Benedetti in 1981
Born	(1920-09-14)14 September 1920 Paso de los Toros
Died	17 May 2009(2009-05-17) (aged 88) Montevideo
Occupation	Writer
Nationality	Uruguayan

Early life and education

Benedetti 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.[5] 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,[6] so they moved and settled in Montevideo, the capital city of the country, where they lived in difficult economic conditions.[7] 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. His father immediately removed him from the school when Nazi ideology started featuring in the classroom. 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. In those years he learned shorthand, which was his livelihood for a long time. At the age of 14 he began working, first as a stenographer and then as a seller, public officer, accountant, journalist, broadcaster and translator.

Career

He trained as a journalist with Carlos Quijano, in the weekly Marcha.[8] From 1938 and 1941 he lived in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He worked in different professions on both banks of the Río de la Plata river, for example, as a stenographer.[9] In 1946 he married Luz López Alegre.

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.[10]

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. In 1957, he traveled to Europe and visited nine countries as a correspondent for Marcha weekly magazine and El Diario newspaper.[11]

Exile, 1973 to 1985

For 12 years, from 1973 to 1985, when a civic-military dictatorship ruled Uruguay, Benedetti lived in exile. He first went to Buenos Aires, Argentina, and then to Lima, Peru where he was detained, deported and then given amnesty. He went to Cuba in 1976 and the following year to Madrid, Spain.[6] His exile was made particularly trying by the fact that his wife had to remain in Uruguay to look after both of their mothers. In 1980, he moved to Palma, Majorca.

Return to Uruguay, 1985

Benedetti returned to Uruguay in March 1985 following the restoration of democracy, and thereafter divided his time between Montevideo and Madrid. 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 1986 he was awarded Laureate Of The International Botev Prize. On 7 June 2005, he was named the recipient of the Menéndez Pelayo International Prize. 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.[12]

In 2006, Mario Benedetti signed a petition in support of the independence of Puerto Rico from the United States.

Personal life and death

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, his wife Luz López died, ending more than six decades of matrimony.

Before dying he dictated to his personal secretary, Ariel Silva, what would become his last poem:[13]

Mi vida ha sido como una farsa Mi arte ha consistido En que esta no se notara demasiado He sido como un levitador en la vejez El brillo marrón de los azulejos Jamás se separó de mi piel	My life has been like a fraud My art has consisted In its not being noticed too much I've been like a levitator in my old age The brown sheen of the tiles Never came off my skin
—(Fragment)

He died in Montevideo on 17 May 2009. He had suffered from respiratory and intestinal problems for more than a year. His remains are buried at the National Pantheon in the Central Cemetery of Montevideo.[14]

Work

For his poetry and novels Benedetti won numerous international awards. La Tregua, first published in 1960, has since been translated into over 20 languages (into English by Harry Morales) and inspired the 1974 film The Truce. Each year below links to either the corresponding "[year] in literature" or "[year] in poetry" article:

See also

• List of Uruguayan writers
• Eduardo Galeano
• Juan Carlos Onetti
• Daniel Viglietti
• Sergio Renán
• Eliseo Subiela
• Nacha Guevara

References

External links

• Mario Benedetti Foundation (in Spanish)
• Excerpt from "Spring with a Broken Corner" in Guernica Magazine
• Poemas
• Center for Latin American studies Mario Benedetti, Universitat d'Alacant, Spain

На других языках

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- [en] Mario Benedetti

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[es] Mario Benedetti

Mario Benedetti Farrugia (Paso de los Toros, Tacuarembó, 14 de septiembre de 1920 - Montevideo, 17 de mayo de 2009) fue un escritor, poeta, dramaturgo y periodista uruguayo, integrante de la Generación del 45, a la que pertenecieron, entre otros, los también escritores Idea Vilariño y Juan Carlos Onetti.[1][2][3]

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[fr] Mario Benedetti

Mario Benedetti, né à Paso de los Toros le 14 septembre 1920 et mort le 17 mai 2009 à Montevideo, est un écrivain uruguayen éclectique : poète, mais aussi nouvelliste, essayiste, romancier et dramaturge. Il est considéré comme l'un des écrivains les plus importants en langue espagnole par la critique littéraire, et est aussi l'un des écrivains latino-américains les plus universels du XXe siècle[1].

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[ru] Бенедетти, Марио

Марио Бенедетти (исп. Mario Benedetti, полное имя Марио Орландо Гамлет Харди Бренно Бенедетти Фаруджиа; 14 сентября 1920 (1920-09-14), Пасо-де-лос-Торос, Такуарембо — 17 мая 2009, Монтевидео) — уругвайский журналист, поэт и писатель, драматург, литературовед.

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