The publication’s 256th issue will be launched at the institution’s Manuel Galich Hall at 3:00 p.m. Friday.
Included in this number are texts by Eduardo Galeano, Margaret Randall, and Carmen Alemany Bay, as well as testimonies of some people who had the opportunity of sharing different facets and moments of the creative life of the author of Gracias por el Fuego (Thank you for the Fire). 
The magazine also presents a study by Pablo Rocca entitled “Apuntes sobre el escritor popular” (Notes on the popular writer), and the article “Mario Benedetti: Un mito discretísimo” (Mario Benedetti: a very discrete myth), by Hortensia Campanella, the two of them dedicated to the Uruguayan poet and narrator, the Casa de las Américas web site reports.
The present edition is illustrated with works that won prizes and mentions in the recently concluded La Joven Estampa Prize.
Mario Benedetti is very much linked to Casa’s history, of which he was a tireless
collaborator and the founder of its Literary Research Center in 1967. He was also part of the organizing committee of the Casa de las Américas literary prize.