Eduardo Galeano

Eduardo Hughes Galeano ( born September 3, 1940 in Montevideo, Uruguay ) is a Uruguayan journalist, essayist and writer.

Life

With twenty years Galeano was deputy editor of MARCHA, a journal of culture and politics in Montevideo. Later he was with managerial experience in several left-wing magazines. In 1976 he went into exile in Spain, where he remained until the end of Uruguay's military dictatorship in 1985.

In 1971, the first version of his work Las venas abiertas de América Latina ( Open Veins of Latin America, the German ), which deals with the history of Latin America, especially the colonial dominions of ancient and modern character. In recognition for his 2010 Stig- Dagerman Prize was awarded.

Galeano is one of the literary spokesman of the dependency theory.

Works (selection)

  • The Open Veins of Latin America. Peter Hammer Verlag, München ISBN 3-87294-162-3.
  • The ball is round. Union Verlag, Zurich, ISBN 3-293-20161- X.
  • The feet upwards. Peter Hammer Verlag, München ISBN 3-87294-842-3.
  • Memory of the fire: Vol 1: births. Peter Hammer Verlag, Wuppertal 1983, ISBN 3-87294-212-3.
  • Vol 2: Faces and masks. Peter Hammer Verlag, Wuppertal, 1986, ISBN 3-87294-291-3.
  • Vol 3: Century of the Wind. Peter Hammer Verlag, Wuppertal 1988 ISBN 3-87294-361-8.

Short stories

  • El cumpleaños - The Birthday
  • Cortés
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