Mario Benedetti

Mario Benedetti was a Uruguayan journalist, novelist and poet, born in 1920, and an integral member of the Generación del 45. He wrote more than eighty books across short stories, novels, poetry and essays, and some were published in twenty languages. His novel La tregua follows a widower nearing retirement whose unexpected romance offers a brief break from his lonely routine. Other books under his name include Springtime in a Broken Mirror and Who Among Us?