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Mario Benedetti

1920 - 2009

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Mario Benedetti Farrugia (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈmaɾjo βeneˈðeti] ; 14 September 1920 – 17 May 2009), was a Uruguayan journalist, novelist, and poet and an integral member of the Generación del 45. Despite publishing more than 80 books and being published in twenty languages, he was not well known in the English-speaking world. In the Spanish-speaking world, he is considered one of Latin America's most important writers of the latter half of the 20th century. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Mario Benedetti is the 1,502nd most popular writer (down from 1,381st in 2019), the 23rd most popular biography from Uruguay (down from 22nd in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Uruguayan Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Mario Benedetti ranks 1,502 out of 7,302. Before him are Robin Hobb, Ibn al-Khatib, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Gustav Landauer, Gampopa, and August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben. After him are Olaus Petri, Régis Debray, Antoine Isaac Silvestre de Sacy, Lydia Koidula, Jean M. Auel, and Gore Vidal.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1920, Mario Benedetti ranks 93. Before him are Dorothea Binz, Abe Lenstra, Karl Albrecht, Maurice Bucaille, Cornelis Johannes van Houten, and Ovadia Yosef. After him are Alexander Arutiunian, Mehdi Ben Barka, Ricardo Montalbán, Constanze Manziarly, Henri Verneuil, and Roberto Calvi. Among people deceased in 2009, Mario Benedetti ranks 64. Before him are Eleanor F. Helin, J. G. Ballard, Ertuğrul Osman, Vyacheslav Tikhonov, Susan Atkins, and Israel Gelfand. After him are Ingemar Johansson, Jack Kemp, Hussein-Ali Montazeri, Samak Sundaravej, Ricardo Montalbán, and Luís Cabral.

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In Uruguay

Among people born in Uruguay, Mario Benedetti ranks 23 out of 444. Before him are Pedro Petrone (1905), Obdulio Varela (1917), Lucía Topolansky (1944), Julio María Sanguinetti (1936), Natalia Oreiro (1977), and José Santamaría (1929). After him are Jules Laforgue (1860), Alberto Suppici (1898), Ladislao Mazurkiewicz (1945), Juan María Bordaberry (1928), Roque Máspoli (1917), and Luis Alberto Lacalle (1941).

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Among WRITERS In Uruguay

Among writers born in Uruguay, Mario Benedetti ranks 3. Before him are Comte de Lautréamont (1846), and Eduardo Galeano (1940). After him are Jules Laforgue (1860), Juan Carlos Onetti (1909), Horacio Quiroga (1878), Jules Supervielle (1884), Delmira Agustini (1886), Cristina Peri Rossi (1941), Juana de Ibarbourou (1892), José Enrique Rodó (1871), and Ida Vitale (1923).

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