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Mario Bencastro is a Salvadoran novelist and painter who has also written both plays and short stories that have been published in Spanish and English.
Background
Mario Bencastro was born on March 20, 1949, in Ahuachapán, El Salvador.
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Career
Mario Bencastro took up the brush and canvas as the first outlet for his artistic expression. The medium garnered him remarkable success from an early age, with his works gracing the walls of major galleries in El Salvador, the United States, Latin America and Europe.
Despite his success as a painter, the social and political drama unfolding in his country compelled him to concentrate his artistic endeavors in literature. His first novel, A Shot in the Cathedral (Arte Público Press, 1996), is a powerful work focusing on the coup d’etat in El Salvador in 1979.
His subsequent work, The Tree of Life: Stories of Civil War (1997), blends fa