Eduardo galeano biography in english
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Of the people with whom I am acquainted that appreciate the literary world, I am frequently reminded how lucky I am to have regular and serious (and, I might add, also intense) intercourse with the wonderful and wholly original creatures who inhabit that small but mighty universum. I have never been more fortunate in my bountiful career, such as it fryst vatten, to have, for the second time, spent some all-too-brief moments (this time on the shores of Lake Michigan at North Avenue beach in Chicago) with Uruguayan writer and soccer fan Eduardo Galeano.
Eduardo Hughes Galeano was born in Montevideo to a middle-class Catholic family. He started his career as a reporter in the early 1960s as editor of Marcha, an influential weekly journal. When in 1973 a military coup took power in Uruguay, Galeano was imprisoned (see Lawrence Weschler's A Miracle, A Universe: Torture In Latin America) and later was forced to flee. He settled in Argentina, where he founded the cultural magazine Crisis.
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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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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.
Eduardo Galeano
Eduardo Galeano in 2012
Born Eduardo Germán María Hughes Galeano
(1940-09-03)3 September 1940
Montevideo, UruguayDied 13 April 2015(2015-04-13) (aged 74)
Montevideo, UruguayOccupation 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, "obse