¡Mira que luna......! Look at that moon....! Resources for learning English: LITERATURE: THE AUTHOR OF THE DAY.

!Mira que luna! Look at that moon! Resources for learning English

Fernando Olivera: El rapto.- TEXT FROM THE NOVEL The goldfinch by Donna Tartt (...) One night we were in San Antonio, and I was having a bit of a melt-down, wanting my own room, you know, my dog, my own bed, and Daddy lifted me up on the fairgrounds and told me to look at the moon. When "you feel homesick", he said, just look up. Because the moon is the same wherever you go". So after he died, and I had to go to Aunt Bess -I mean, even now, in the city, when I see a full moon, it's like he's telling me not to look back or feel sad about things, that home is wherever I am. She kissed me on the nose. Or where you are, puppy. The center of my earth is you". The goldfinch Donna Tartt 4441 English edition

Sunday, January 9, 2011

LITERATURE: THE AUTHOR OF THE DAY.

FROM http://www.bookrags.com/wiki/Mario_Benedetti Mario Benedetti
Born	September 14 1920 (age 87)-2010. Paso de los Toros, Uruguay
Nationality	Uruguayan

Mario Benedetti (born September 14, 1920) is anUruguayan journalist, novelist, and poet. Benedetti was born in Paso de los Toros, Tacuarembó;,Uruguay. He is not well known in the English-speakingworld, but in the Spanish-speaking world he is considered one of Latin America's most important living writers. In 1946 he married Luz López Alegre. From 1973 to 1985, when a military dictatorship ruled Uruguay, Benedetti lived in exile in Buenos Aires,Lima, Havana, and Spain. He currently divides his time between Montevideo and Madrid. He has been granted Honoris Causa doctorates by the Universidad de la República, Uruguay, and theUniversidad de Alicante, Spain. On June 7, 2005 he was named as the recipient of the Premio Menéndez Pelayo. More recently, on January 26, 2006, Mario Benedetti, joined other internationally renowned figures such as Gabriel García Márquez, Ernesto Sábato, Thiago de Mello, Eduardo Galeano, Carlos Monsiváis, Pablo Armando Fernández Jorge Enrique Adoum,Pablo Milanés, Luis Rafael Sánchez, Mayra Montero and Ana Lydia Vega, in demanding sovereignty for Puerto Rico and joining the Latin American and Caribbean Congress for the Independence of Puerto Rico, which approved a resolution favoring the island-nation's right to assert its independence, as ratified unanimously by political parties from hailing from twenty two Latin American countries in November of 2006; García Márquez's demand for the recognition of Puerto Rico's independence was obtained at the behest of the Puerto Rican Independence Party.

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Works

Poetry

La víspera indeleble (1945) (first published book)
Poemas de oficina (1956)
La casa y el ladrillo (1977)
El amor, las mujeres y la vida. Poemas de amor (1996)
La vida ese parentesis (1997)
Insomnios y Duermevelas (2002) (ISBN 84-7522-959-X)
Defensa propia (2004) (ISBN 950-731-438-5)
Little Stones At My Window (Bilingual edition; translation and introduction by Charles Hatfield) (ISBN 1-880684-90-X)

Poemas de otros Noción de Patria

Short stories

Montevideanos (1960)
Aquí se respira bien
Los pocillos
Acaso irreparable
Escrito en Überlingen
El reino de los cielos
Miss Amnesia
"Una carta de amor"

Essays

El país de la cola de paja (1960)
"La Coleccion"

Novels

La tregua (1960)
Gracias por el fuego (1965)
El cumpleaños de Juan Angel (1971)
Primavera con una esquina rota (1982)
Vientos del exilio (1982)
Geografías (1984)
Las soledades de Babel (1991)
La borra del café (1993)
Andamios (1996)
El porvenir de mi pasado (2003)

deep-seated discuss
Definition:	(adjective) (Used especially of ideas or principles) deeply rooted; firmly fixed or held.
Synonyms:	deep-rooted, implanted, ingrained,planted
Usage:	He divined the fanatical love of freedom in her, the deep-seated antipathy for restraint of any sort.

misconstrue
Definition:	Interpret in the wrong way.
Synonyms:	be amiss, misapprehend, misconceive, misunderstand, misinterpret

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