# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/mario-benedetti
# Generated: 2026-08-13T17:18:43.986Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/mario-benedetti"
name: "Mario Benedetti"
slug: "mario-benedetti"
description: "Mario Benedetti Farrugia, 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."
tagline: "Uruguayan journalist, novelist, and poet (1920-2009)"
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birthDate: "1920-09-14"
deathDate: "2009-05-17"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  profileCompleteness:  65
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump