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Mario Benedetti (born September 14, 1920) is an
Uruguayan journalist, novelist, and poet.

Benedetti was born in Paso de Toros,
Tacuarembó, Uruguay. He is not well known
in the English language|English-speaking world,
but in the Spanish language|Spanish-speaking world
he is considered one of Latin America's most
important living writers.  In 1946 he married  Luz
López Alegre.

During the 1970s, when a military dictatorship
ruled Uruguay, Benedetti lived in exile in Buenos
Aires, Lima, Peru|Lima, Havana, and Spain. He
currently divides his time between Montevideo and
Madrid.  He has been granted Honoris Causa
doctorates by the Universidad de la República,
Uruguay, and the Universidad de Alicante, Spain. 
On June 7 2005 he was named as the recipient of
the Premio Menéndez Pelayo.

==Poetry==
* La víspera indeleble (1945) (first published
book)
* Poemas de oficina (1956)
* La casa y el ladrillo (1977)
* El amor, las mujeres y la vida. Poemas de amor
(1996)
* La vida ese parentesis (1997)
* Defensa propia (2004) (ISBN 9507314385)
* Little Stones At My Window (Bilingual edition;
translation and introduction by Charles Hatfield)
(ISBN 188068490X)

==Short stories==
*  Montevideanos (1960)

==Essays==
* El país de la cola de paja (1960)

==Novels==
* La tregua (1960) 
* Gracias por el fuego (1965) 
* El cumpleaños de Juan Angel (1971) 
* Primavera con una esquina rota (1982)
* Vientos del exilio (1982)
* Geografías (1984) 
* Las soledades de Babel (1991)
* Andamios (1996)

==Plays==
* Pedro y el capitán (1979)

==External links==

*http://www31.brinkster.com/benedetti/ Mario
Benedetti