Juan Carlos Onetti, born July 1, 1909 in Montevideo, Uruguay - died May 30, 1994 in Madrid, Spain, was a novelist and short-story writer. July 1 is the 182nd day of the year (183rd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 183 days remaining. ... 1909 (MCMIX) was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... Montevideo, Minnesota, Montevideo is the capital, chief port and largest city in Uruguay (population 1. ... May 30 is the 150th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (151st in leap years). ... 1994 (MCMXCIV in Roman) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International year of the Family. ... This article is about the Spanish capital. ...

A high school dropout, Onetti's first novel, El pozo, published in 1939, met with his close friends' immediate acclaim, as well as from some writers and journalists of his time. 500 copies of the book were printed, most of them left to rot at the only bookstore that sold it, Barreiro. Aged 30, Onetti was already working as editing secretary of the famous weekly Uruguayan newspaper Marcha. He had stayed for some years in Buenos Aires, where he published short stories and wrote cinema critics for the local media, and met and befriended the notorious writer ("El juguete rabioso", "Los siete locos", "Los lanzallamas") and journalist, Roberto Arlt.

He went on to become one of Latin America's most distinguished writers, earning Uruguay's National Prize in literature in 1962. In 1974, he and some of his colleagues were imprisoned by the military dictatorship. Their crime: as members of the jury, they had chosen Nelson Marra's short story "El guardaespaldas" (i.e. "The bodyguard") as the winner of Marcha´s annual literary contest. Due to a series of misunderstandings (and the need to cover some space in the following day´s edition), "El guardaespaldas" was published in Marcha, although it had been widely agreed among them that they shouldn't and wouldn´t do so, knowing this would be the perfect excuse for the military to intervene Marcha, considering the subject of the story (the interior monologue of a top-rank military officer who recounts his murders and atrocious behavior, much as it was happening with the functioning regime). Latin America consists of the countries of South America and some of North America (including Central America and some the islands of the Caribbean) whose inhabitants mostly speak Romance languages, although Native American languages are also spoken. ...

Onetti left his native country (and his much-loved city of Montevideo) after being imprisoned for 6 months in Colonia Etchepare, a mental institution. A long list of world-famous writers -including Gabriel García Márquez, Mario Vargas Llosa and Mario Benedetti- signed open letters addressed to the military government of Uruguay, which was unaware of the talented (and completely harmless) writer it had imprisoned and humilliated.

As soon as he was released, Onetti fled to Spain with his wife, violin player Dorotea Mühr. There he continued his career as a writer, being awarded the most prestigious literary prize in the Spanish world, the Premio Cervantes. He remained in Madrid until his passing in 1994. He is interred in the Cementerio de la Almudena in Madrid. The Cementerio de la Almudena, is the largest cemetery in Madrid, Spain. ... Madrid is the capital and largest city in Spain, as well as in the province and the autonomous community of the same name. ...

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Writing awards:

• Uruguay National Literature Prize (1962)
• William Faulkner Foundation Ibero-American Award (1963)
• Casa de las Américas Prize (1965)
• Italian-Latin American Institute Prize (1972)
• Premio Cervantes (1980)

Selected works: Premio Miguel de Cervantes (the Miguel de Cervantes Prize) is awarded annually to honor the whole career of an outstanding writer in Spanish language. ...

• El pozo (1939) - The Pit
• Tierra de nadie (1941) - No Man's Land
• Para esta noche (1943) - Tonight
• La vida breve (1950) - A Brief Life
• Un sueño realizado y otros cuentos (1951
• Para una tumba sin nombre (1959) - A Grave with No Name
• La cara de la desgracia (1960
• El astillero (1961) - The Shipyard
• Juntacadáveres (1964) - Body Snatcher
• Tres novelas (1967)
• Cuentos completos (1967)
• Los rostros del amor (1968)
• Novelas y cuentos cortos completos (1968)
• Obras completas (1970)
• La muerte y la niña (1973)
• Cuentos completos (1974)
• Tiempo de abrazar (1974)
• Réquiem por Faulkner (1975)
• Tan triste como ella y otros cuentos (1976)
• Dejemos hablar al viento (1979) - Let the Wind Speak
• Cuentos secretos (1986)
• Presencia y otros cuentos (1986)
• Cuando entonces (1987)
• Goodbyes and Other Stories (1990)
• Cuando ya no importe (1993) - Past Caring