Eduardo Galeano | |
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.jpg) Eduardo Galeano in 2012 | |
| Born | Eduardo Germán María Hughes Galeano 3 September 1940 Montevideo, Uruguay |
| Died | 13 April 2015 (aged 74) Montevideo, Uruguay |
| Occupation | Writer, journalist |
| Spouse | Helena Villagra |
Eduardo Hughes Galeano (Spanish pronunciation: [eˈðwaɾðo ɣaleˈano]; 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, 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 Pinochet, called Open Veins of Latin America "a mixture of meticulous detail, political conviction, poetic flair, and good storytelling."[3]
- ^ Parker, Graham (3 September 2021). "Eduardo Galeano: The beautiful game loses its man of letters". Retrieved 13 April 2015.[dead link]
- ^ "Writer Eduardo Galeano dies". buenosairesherald.com. 3 September 2021. Retrieved 3 September 2021.
- ^ Bernstein, Adam (3 September 2021). "Eduardo Galeano, influential Uruguayan author, dies at 81". The Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved 7 January 2022.