I leave you the best short phrases of Mario Benedetti about love, friendship, not giving up and much more. They are thoughts, reflections and words from his best books. Mario Benedetti was a Uruguayan poet born in 1920 and died in 2009. His work encompasses the narrative, poetic, and dramatic genre, and he also wrote essays.
Among his best-known publications are: Love, women and life, The truce, Living on purpose, Biography to find myself and Histories of life (audio book).
Benedetti was born in Paso de los Toros. He completed six years of primary school at the Deutsche Schule in Montevideo, where he also learned German, which allowed him to be the first Kafka translator in Uruguay.
For two years he studied at the Liceo Miranda, but for the rest of his high school years he did not attend an educational institution. In those years he learned shorthand, which was his livelihood for a long time.
At the age of 14 he began working, first as a stenographer and then as a salesman, public official, accountant, journalist, broadcaster and translator. Between 1938 and 1941 he lived in Buenos Aires, Argentina. In 1946 he married Luz López Alegre.
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Benedetti in 1981
Nacha Guevara, Alberto Favero and Benedetti
Photograph of Mario Benedetti at the end of the press conference in Colonia (Uruguay). 1998 or 1999.
Generation 45.
Ricardo Casas with Mario Benedetti at the International Film Festival of Uruguay, April 2004.