That poem, Salary, was included in his collection Office Poems.  
One of this man's poems lists "life lived until death", "the freedom of the present", and "your battles without medals" as things having the titular quality, and one of his prose poems describes a man whose poem Time and the Bell eventually appears in English under the title Burnt Norton attributed to T. S. Eliot.  In addition to What is Useful and Translations, this man states "there are prayers, there are petals, there are rivers / there is tenderness like a damp wind" in his poem Only in the Meantime.  Another poem states "that hope that fit into a thimble / evidently doesn't fit in this envelope / with dirty papers from so many dirty hands".  That poem, Salary, was included in his collection Office Poems.  He described a soccer player who takes a bribe to throw a game but cannot resist the temptation to score a goal in his short story Left Wing, and Laura has an affair with an aging bureaucrat searching for happiness in his novel about Martin Santome.  FTP, name this author of The Truce and member of the Generation of '45 who wrote the short story collection Montevideans, a native of Uruguay.
One of this man's poems lists "life lived until death", "the freedom of the present", and "your battles without medals" as things having the titular quality, and one of his prose poems describes a man whose poem Time and the Bell eventually appears in English under the title Burnt Norton attributed to T. S. Eliot.  
Mario Benedetti