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Eduardo Galeano
Uruguayan writer and journalist (1940–2015)
In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Hughes and the second or maternal family name is Galeano.
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Eduardo Galeano in 2012 | |
| Born | Eduardo Germán María Hughes Galeano (1940-09-03)3 September 1940 Montevideo, Uruguay |
| Died | 13 April 2015(2015-04-13) (aged 74) Montevideo, Uruguay |
| Occupation | Writer, journalist |
| Spouse | Helena Villagra |
Eduardo Hughes Galeano (Spanish:[eˈðwaɾðoɣaleˈano]; 3 September 1940 – 13 April 2015) was a Uruguayan journalist, writer and novelist considered, among other things, "a literary giant of the Latin American left" and "global soccer's pre-eminent man of letters".[1]
Galeano's best-known works are Las venas abiertas de América Latina (Open Veins of Latin America, 1971) and Memoria del fuego (Memory of Fire Trilogy [es], 1982–6). "I'm a writer," the author once said of himself, "obsessed with remembering, with remembering the past of America and above all that of Latin America, intimate land condemned to amnesia."[2]
Author Isabel Allende, who said her copy of Galeano's book was one of the few items with which she fled Chile in 1973 after the military coup of Augusto
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Eduardo Galeano
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Eduardo Galeano
Eduardo Galeano | |
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Eduardo Galeano in 2012 | |
| Born | Eduardo Germán María Hughes Galeano (1940-09-03)3 September 1940 Montevideo, Uruguay |
| Died | 13 April 2015(2015-04-13) (aged 74) Montevideo, Uruguay |
| Occupation | Writer, journalist |
| Nationality | Uruguayan |
| Period | 20th century |
| Spouse | Helena Villagra |
Eduardo Hughes Galeano (3 September 1940 – 13 April 2015) was a Uruguayan journalist, writer and novelist. His best-known works are Las venas abiertas de América Latina (Open Veins of Latin America, 1971) and Memoria del fuego (Memory of Fire Trilogy, 1982–6).
Galeano died in Montevideo, Uruguay from lung cancer, aged 74."[1][2]
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- Interview with Eduardo Galeano
- Sandra Cisneros reads "Los Nadies/The Nobodies" by Eduardo Galeano from Book of Embraces, El libro de los abrazos (1989) "[1]Archived 2006-02-19 at the Wayback Machine".
- "'Voices of Time': Legendary Uruguayan Writer Eduardo Galeano on Immigration, Latin America, Iraq, Writing – and SoccerArchived 2007-11-15 at the Wayback Machine," Democracy Now! 19 May 2006