Juan Carlos Onetti
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Juan Carlos Onetti (1909–94), winner of the Cervantes Prize in 1980, was a Latin American novelist known for his brilliant narrative technique in a realist mode. He won Uruguay’s National Literature Prize in 1962; imprisoned there in 1974, upon release, he fled to Spain. His works in English include The Goodbyes, A Brief Life, The Shipyard, and Body Snatcher.