Reporting from Bogota, Colombia, and Buenos Aires — Uruguayan author Mario Benedetti, whose bestselling poems and novels helped launch Latin America’s postwar literary boom, has died. He was 88.

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Uruguayan writer Mario Benedetti, whose novels were widely translated and poems set to music, has died at the age of 88 at his home in Montevideo. Benedetti's work chronicled the life of Uruguay's ...

The Latin American Boom of the 1960s and 1970s introduced Anglophone audiences to a brave new world of writers whose brand of modernism included both rigorous engagements with regional history and ...

Uruguayan writer Mario Benedetti, whose novels and poems are widely read throughout the Spanish-speaking world, has died at the age of 88. Benedetti died at his home in Montevideo on Sunday morning, ...