ArtistInfo

Mario Benedetti

1920-2009 UY, Uruguay
Spoken Word, Folk and World
A.k.a. Mario Orlando Hardy Hamlet Brenno Benedetti Farrugia

Mario Orlando Hardy Hamlet Brenno Benedetti Farrugia ([ˈmaɾjo βeneˈðeti]; 14 September 1920 – 17 May 2009),known as Mario Benedetti, was an Uruguayan journalist, novelist, and poet as well as being an integral member of the Generación del 45. In spite of 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 from the latter half of the 20th-century.

Genres

• Spoken Word
• Folk
• World
• Latin
• Soundtrack