Journalist, writer and teacher, Antonio Di Benedetto is considered one of the great South American authors. From his first book of short stories Mundo animal to Zama, one of the most important novels of 20th century Latin American literature, the author explored the fantastic and stood out for his expressive austerity and the power of his images.
In 1969 he received from the Italian government the title of Knight of the Order of Merit, and in 1971, the Alliance Française awarded him the gold medal for his literary and journalistic work. In 1973 he was appointed founding member of the Club de los XIII; in 1974 he was awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship for his prose fiction; and after his return from exile, he received the Grand Prize of Honor from the Argentine Society of Writers (SADE); the Doctorate Honoris Causa from the National University of Cuyo and the appointment as a member of the Argentine Academy of Letters. He was also a member of the Royal Academy of the Spanish Language.
«A Great Writer We Should Know».
J.M. Coetzee
«He has written essential pages that have moved me and continue to move me».
Jorge Luis Borges
«Antonio Di Benedetto’s narrative prose is undoubtedly the most original of the century and, from a stylistic point of view, it is useless to look for antecedents or influences in other narrators: it has none».
Juan José Saer
«His narrative, with an air of Pessoa and Kafka, is a rara avis among his Argentine contemporaries»
El Diario
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