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My Profile Top News Reuters top ten news stories delivered to your inbox each day. 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Benedetti lived in exile from 1973-1983 during Uruguay's military regime and dubbed his return to the South American country the "unexile." The injustices of the dictatorship and his re-adaptation to Uruguay -- which he said had become petty and materialistic -- were major themes in his prolific six-decade body of novels, short stories, poems, essays and articles. In the short stories that launched his fame in the 1950s and 1960s, Benedetti wrote affectionate descriptions of the low-key pleasantness of Montevideo but also despaired of its bureaucratic drabness. "Montevideo is a city whose climate and lifestyle are almost provincial, where strangers feel comfortable," he said in an interview in the late 1990s. With his white mustache and friendly round eyes, Benedetti remained beloved in Uruguay into his old age. Well into his 80s, he performed sold-out readings in Montevideo. He sat in a rocking chair on stage reading from a big book, while his long-time friend and collaborator, singer-songwriter Daniel Viglietti, sang and played guitar. Spanish romantic pop-star Joan Manuel Serrat turned Benedetti poems into hit songs -- most notably "The South Also Exists," an anti-U.S. polemic. Benedetti had been hospitalized several times in the past two years with respiratory and intestinal problems. B his brother, Raul Benedetti, told local television that he had been improving in recent weeks, so his death came as something of a surprise. 'INFORMED OPTIMISM' Benedetti's late poems, such as the collection "The World I Breathe," mused on old age and the cacophony of world politics. But he often quipped that his pessimism was merely "informed optimism" and said that youth was his hope for the future. Adolescents in South America still share his love poems with each other, reading his work in home videos posted on YouTube -- especially "Don't Hold Back," which urges people to take risks, and "Let's Make a Deal," about unconditional friendship. For years Benedetti shuttled between Madrid and Montevideo to avoid winter, because of his chronic asthma. But he had recently moved to Montevideo year-round. He won Spain's prestigious Reina Sofia Poetry award in 1999. One of his early novels, "The Truce," written as the diary of a middle-aged man's boring routines, was made into a movie. Continued... View article on single page Share: Del.icio.us Digg Mixx Yahoo! Facebook LinkedIn Next Article: Norway wins the 54th Eurovision Song Contest Also on Reuters Much to prove for new U.S. commander in Afghanistan Clouds on horizon for ''American Idol'' juggernaut? No bloom yet in U.S.-Cuba ties after April overtures More Entertainment News Clouds on horizon for "American Idol" juggernaut? 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