BENEDETTI, writer month
On the occasion of the centenary of his birth, Mario Benedetti He is writer of the month of September at the Iivissa Municipal Library. Benedetti was a Uruguayan writer and poet from the Generation of '45. He is the author of books such as The Truce y Thanks for the fire, entre otros.
BENEDETTI (Uruguay, 1920 – 2009) He practiced journalism and was an activist in several leftist movements.. en 1949 He was a member of the editorial board of 'Número', one of the most prominent literary magazines of the time. On these dates, He also actively participated in the movement against the military treaty between his country and the United States., in what was his first action as a progressive activist. 1964 He worked as a theater critic and co-director of the weekly literary page in the newspaper 'La morning'.
He was one of the promoters of the leftist platform Wide Front (1971). Due to the military coup d'état 1973, had to go into exile, and lived successively in Peru, Cuba (1976) and Spain (1977). Since the end of the Uruguayan dictatorship (1984) Benedetti alternated residence between Montevideo and Madrid.
In his extensive work a deliberately simple style can be seen., plasma, with ingenuity and critical vision, the mediocrity and frustration of the middle class of Montevideo. It is worth highlighting the stories Montevideans (1959), Death and other surprises (1968), Spring with a broken corner (1991), time mailbox (1999) y The future of my past (2003); the novels The Truce (1960), Thanks for the fire (1965) y Juan Ángel's birthday (1971); poetry books Inventory (1963), Dream plows (1967), Inventory 70 (1970), Inventory 1982 (1982), random questions (1986, some poems of which Joan Manuel Serrat music and recorded on the album The South also exists,1985), Against drawbridges (1998), self defense (2004), I still exist (2004) y Witness to oneself (2008), and the trials The country of the straw tail (1960), Letters from the mestizo continent (1967), emergency letters (1973), Reality and the word (1991), Memory and Hope (2004), entre otros.
He also cultivated theater (Pedro and the captain, 1997) and contributed to numerous periodicals. His prolific literary production included more than 80 books, many of which were translated into 20 Languages.
Won, entre otros, the Reina Sofía Prize for Ibero-American Poetry (1999), the Ibero-American José Martí award (2001), the Menéndez Pelayo International Prize and received the Francisco de Miranda Decoration from the Venezuelan government. (2007). He was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of the Republic of Uruguay (2004).
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