Uruguay author Mario Benedetti dead at 88
AFP
MONTEVIDEO - Author and poet Mario Benedetti, one of the Spanish-speaking world's leading literary voices, died Sunday at his home in Uruguay's capital, family and friends said. He was 88.
One of his country's most prolific writers, Benedetti was a leading figure in the postwar "Generation of '45" and continued working until his final days.
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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