Uruguayan novelist Mario Benedetti has been announced as the winner of the $58,872 Menendez Pelayo Prize for Spanish-language literature. As an Associated Press wire story reports, the author of such novels as Existir Todavia (To Exist Still), Ida y Vuelta (There and Back), and La Tregua (The Truce), was honored for his lifetime achievement and “his commitment to human nature.” Previous winners have included Octavio Paz, Carolos Fuentes, and Mario Vargas Llosa.