Uruguay author Mario Benedetti dead at 88

In September, he published "Testigo de uno mismo" ("Witness for Oneself") and also was recently working on a poetry collection entitled "Biografia para encontrarme" ("Finding Myself in Life's Story").
While vastly better known in the Spanish-speaking world than in English, Benedetti's "The Truce" (1960) was translated into more than a dozen languages.
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