Eduardo Galeano

Eduardo Germán María Hughes Galeano (Spanish: [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".

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, 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."

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."

Notable works: Open Veins of Latin America, Days and Nights of Love and War, Memory of Fire, Memory of Fire: 2. Faces and Masks, Memory of Fire: 3. Century of the Wind, The Book of Embraces, We Say No: Chronicles, 1963 - 1991, Walking Words Awards: Stig Dagerman Prize, American Book Awards, Manuel Vázquez Montalbán Award for Sports Journalism, Lannan Cultural Freedom Prize, José María Arguedas Prize, Medalla Delmira Agustini

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