Mario Benedetti was born in Uruguay and is not well known in the English-speaking world, but he is considered one of Latin America\u2019s most important living writers. He lived in Argentina, Bolivia, Cuba and Spain from 1973 to 1985, during a military dictatorship in Uruguay. Nowadays he divides his time between Montevideo and Madrid.
\nBenedetti has always been politically-oriented and, in January 2006, he joined other renowned figures such as Gabriel Garc\u00eda M\u00e1rquez, Ernesto S\u00e1bato, Thiago de Mello, Eduardo Galeano, Carlos Monsiv\u00e1is, Pablo Armando Fern\u00e1ndez, Jorge Enrique Adoum, Pablo Milan\u00e9s, Luis Rafael S\u00e1nchez, Mayra Montero and Ana Lydia Vega, to demand sovereignty for Puerto Rico and join the Latin American and Caribbean Congress for the Independence of Puerto Rico, which approved a resolution favoring the island-nation’s right to assert its independence.<\/p>\n
If you want to read some more about Mario Benedetti\u2019s life and work, check out the following website.<\/p>\n
Palabras Verdaderas<\/a> Nos vemos prontito!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Mario Benedetti was born in Uruguay and is not well known in the English-speaking world, but he is considered one of Latin America\u2019s most important living writers. He lived in Argentina, Bolivia, Cuba and Spain from 1973 to 1985, during a military dictatorship in Uruguay. Nowadays he divides his time between Montevideo and Madrid. Benedetti…<\/p>\n
\nHis profile on the Cervantes Virtual Library<\/a>
\n(http:\/\/www.cervantesvirtual.com\/bib_autor\/mbenedetti\/)
\nSome of his short stories, in Spanish<\/a><\/p>\n