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Mario Benedetti - Great poet dedicated to his work.Loading...
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Biography
Mario Orlando Hardy Hamlet Brenno Benedetti was born on September 14, 1920 in Tacuarembó, Uruguay. He was best known as Mario Benedetti, who was a journalist, novelist, and poet. He studied primary school at the Deutsche Schule in Montevideo, where he also learned German. He is considered one of Latin America's most important writers of the latter half of the 20th century. He died of asthma on May 17, 2009.
Interesting Facts
Mario Benedetti published more than 80 books translated into more than 25 languages.
He was Franz Kafka´s first translator in Uruguay, thanks to the fact that during his primary education he learned German at the Deutsche Schule in Montevideo.
He received a total of 18 recognitions and 29 posthumous and living tributes, among which the Grand National Prize for intelectual activity and the Gabriela Mistral medal stand out.
As a journalist he worked in the newspaper and in the morning publishing film and theater criticism. Later he was a part of a film and literature jury at international festival.
He was Franz Kafka´s first translator in Uruguay, thanks to the fact that during his primary education he learned German at the Deutsche Schule in Montevideo.
He received a total of 18 recognitions and 29 posthumous and living tributes, among which the Grand National Prize for intelectual activity and the Gabriela Mistral medal stand out.
As a journalist he worked in the newspaper and in the morning publishing film and theater criticism. Later he was a part of a film and literature jury at international festival.
Time line
I love you
Your hands are my caress my daily reminders
I love you because your hands work hard for justice
If I love you, it's because you are my love my accomplice my all
and out in the street arm in arm we are much more than two
Your eyes are my lucky charm against the bad days
I love you for your look that looks and seeds the future
Your mouth that’s yours and mine Your mouth that’s never wrong
I love you because your mouth knows how to yell like a rebel
If I love you it's because you are my love my accomplice my all
and out in the street arm in arm we are much more than two
And for your honest face and your vagabond step
and your weeping for the world because you’re one of the people,
I love you
And because love is not a halo or a naïve moral
and because we are a pair and know we’re not alone
I love you in my paradise by which I mean my country
where the people live happily even without permission
If I love you it's because you are my love my accomplice my all
and out in the street arm in arm we are much more than two.
I love you because your hands work hard for justice
If I love you, it's because you are my love my accomplice my all
and out in the street arm in arm we are much more than two
Your eyes are my lucky charm against the bad days
I love you for your look that looks and seeds the future
Your mouth that’s yours and mine Your mouth that’s never wrong
I love you because your mouth knows how to yell like a rebel
If I love you it's because you are my love my accomplice my all
and out in the street arm in arm we are much more than two
And for your honest face and your vagabond step
and your weeping for the world because you’re one of the people,
I love you
And because love is not a halo or a naïve moral
and because we are a pair and know we’re not alone
I love you in my paradise by which I mean my country
where the people live happily even without permission
If I love you it's because you are my love my accomplice my all
and out in the street arm in arm we are much more than two.