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Juan Carlos Onetti
Juan Carlos Onetti (Montevideo, 1 July 1909 – Madrid, 30 May 1994) was a Uruguayan novelist and short-story writer, and a senior figure of Uruguay's Generación del 45. Largely self-taught, he published the novella El pozo in 1939; its fusion of reality and fantasy is often placed among the first distinctly modern Spanish American novels. Much of his later work belongs to the saga of Santa María, an invented town that recurs across his fiction and is the setting of El astillero (1961), in which t...