Mario Benedetti, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Mario Benedetti

Uruguayan journalist, novelist, and poet

Date of Birth: 14-Sep-1920

Place of Birth: Paso de los Toros, Tacuarembó Department, Uruguay

Date of Death: 17-May-2009

Profession: writer, poet, politician, playwright, journalist, novelist

Nationality: Uruguay

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Mario Orlando Hardy Hamlet Brenno Benedetti Farrugia (Spanish pronunciation: ['ma?jo ßene'ðeti] (listen); 14 September 1920 – 17 May 2009), best known as Mario Benedetti, was a Uruguayan journalist, novelist, and poet as well as being 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, but in the Spanish-speaking world he was considered one of Latin America's most important writers of the latter half of the 20th century.