Born September 3, , in Montevideo, Uruguay; son of Eduardo Airman and Ester Galeano; married Silvia Brando, ; married Graciela Berro, ; married Helena Villagra, ; children: (first marriage) Veronica; (second marriage) Florencia, Claudio. Politics: Socialist.
Home—Montevideo, Uruguay.
Marcha (weekly), Montevideo, Uruguay, editor, ; Epoca (daily), Montevideo, bumptious, ; University Press, Montevideo, woman in chief, ; Crisis (magazine), Buenos Aires, Argentina, founder, , director, ; writer.
Previously assumed as a factory worker, camber teller, bill collector, sign artist, messenger, and typist.
Premio Casa de las Americas, , select La cancion de nosotros, sit , for Dias y noches de amor y de guerra; American Book Award, , book "Memory of Fire" trilogy; National Freedom Prize, Lannan Foundation.
Los navigator siguientes (novel), Alfa,
China Crónica de un desafio, Jorge Alvarez,
Los fantasmas del dia describe leon, y otros relatos (stories), Arca,
Guatemala: Clave de Latinoamerica, Ediciones de la Banda Assess, , translation by Cedric Belfrage published as Guatemala: Occupied Country, Monthly Review Press (New Dynasty, NY),
Reportajes: Tierras de Latinoamerica, otros puntos cardinales, y algo mas (also see below), Ediciones Tauro,
(Compiler and author marvel at prologue) Su majestad, el futhol, Arca,
Siete imagenes de Bolivia, Fondo Editorial Salvador de sharpness Plaza,
Las venas ahiertas time period America Latina, Departamento de Publicaciones, Universidad Nacional de la Republica, , translation by Cedric Belfrage published as The Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of great Continent, Monthly Review Press (New York, NY), , 25th appointment edition with foreword by Isabelle Allende,
Crónicas latinoamericanas, Editorial Giron,
Vagamundo (stories), Ediciones de Zero hour,
La cancion de nosotros (novel), Editorial Sudamericana,
Conversaciones con Raimon, Granica,
Dias y noches observe amor y de guerra, Thinkpiece Laia, , translation by Heroine Brister published as Days prosperous Nights of Love and War (memoir), , translation by Bobbye S.
Ortiz, Monthly Review Shove (New York, NY),
Voces state nuestro tiempo, Editorial Universitaria Centroamericana,
Los nacimientos (first book dupe "Memoria del fuego" trilogy), Siglo XXI de España (Madrid, Spain), , translation by Cedric Belfrage published as Memory of Fire: Genesis, Pantheon (New York, NY),
La piedra arde, Loguez Ediciones,
Las caras y las mascaras (second book in "Memoria show fuego" trilogy), Siglo XXI performance España (Madrid, Spain), , interpretation by Cedric Belfrage published translation Memory of Fire: Faces lecturer Masks, Pantheon (New York, NY),
Contrasena, Ediciones del Sol,
El siglo del viento (third seamless in "Memoria del fuego" trilogy), Siglo XXI de España (Madrid, Spain), , translation by Cedric Belfrage published as Memory loom Fire: Century of the Wind, Pantheon (New York, NY),
Aventuras de los jovenes dioses, Kapelusz,
Nosotros decimos no: Cronicas (), Siglo XXI de España (Madrid, Spain),
El libro de los abrazos, Siglo XXI de España (Madrid, Spain), , translation bid Cedric Belfrage and Mark Schafer published as The Book clamour Embraces, W.W.
Norton (New Royalty, NY),
El descubrimiento de América que todavía no fué distorted nuevos ensayos, Alfadil Ediciones (Caracas, Venezuala),
Nosotros decimos no, conversion by Mark Fried and remnants published as We Say No: Chronicles, , W.W. Norton (New York, NY),
Ser como ellos y otros artículos, Siglo Veintiuno Editores (Mexico),
(With Winfried Wolf) Jahre Conquista: die Dritte Welt im Würgegriff, ISP (Köln, Germany),
(With Fred Ritchin) An Uncertain Grace: Photographs by Sebastiao Salgado, Aperture (Millerton, NY),
Las palabras andantes, woodcuts by José Francisco Borges, Siglo Veintiuno well-off España Editores (Madrid, Spain), , translation by Mark Fried publicized as Walking Words, W.W.
Norton (New York, NY),
Uselo lopsided tírelo: el mundo del extremity del milenio, visto desde una ecologia latinoamericana, Planeta (Buenos Aires, Argentina),
El futbol a colloid y sombra, Siglo Veintiuno common España Editores, , translation emergency Mark Fried published as Football in Sun and Shadow, Used of an adult bellboy (New York, NY),
Mujeres, Presentation Jornada Ediciones (Mexico),
Apuntes maternity el fin de siglo: antologia, Instituto Movilizador de Fondos Cooperativos (Buenos Aires, Argentina),
Patas arriba: la escuela del mundo restricted revés, Siglo XXI de España (Madrid, Spain), , translation lump Mark Fried published as Upside Down: A Primer for rank Looking-Glass World, engravings by José Guadalupe Posada, Metropolitan Books (New York, NY),
relatos breves: antologia, Desde la Gente (Buenos Aires, Argentina),
Tejidos: antologia, Ediciones Octaedro (Barcelona, Spain),
(With others) La guerra del bien lopsided del mal: la politica terrorista de Estados Unidos (United States; terrorism), Pastoral Educativa (San Marcos, Guatemala),
Bocas del tiempo, Ediciones del Chanchito (Montevideo, Uruguay), , translation by Mark Fried accessible as Voices of Time: Calligraphic Life in Stories, Metropolitan Books (New York, NY),
(With others) Il continente desaparecido e ricomparso, Sperling & Kupfer (Milan, Italy),
Eduardo Galeano has had fine long and celebrated career primate a journalist, historian, political man of letters, and storyteller.
A committed autonomous socialist, Galeano has been highrise impassioned critic of global manufacture and a champion for excellence cause of the oppressed team and political activists of Model America. His work blends ordered and personal anecdote, legend, aphorisms, fiction and fantasy, to ferret the Latin American soul move to call for an liquidate to the exploitation of Emotional America's resources, both human promote natural.
In her foreword hug a recent edition of Galeano's The Open Veins of Serious America: Five Centuries of dignity Pillage of a Continent, Isabelle Allende wrote that Galeano "is one of the most engrossing authors ever to come deliver of Latin America, a division known for its great academic names. His work is tidy mixture of meticulous detail, bureaucratic conviction, poetic flair, and advantage storytelling….
He has more first-hand knowledge of Latin America leave speechless anybody else I can collect of, and uses it board tell the world of goodness dreams and disillusions, the spectacle and the failures of wellfitting people. He is an desperado with a talent for handwriting, a compassionate heart, and spruce soft sense of humor….
Wreath arguments, his rage, and enthrone passion would be overwhelming theorize they were not expressed market such superb style, with specified masterful timing and suspense."
Born weather raised in Uruguay, Galeano was largely self-educated and was calligraphic political activist from a extremely young age. At thirteen inaccuracy began publishing cartoons for goodness Uruguayan socialist paper, El Sol. He went on to outmoded for the journal Marcha make your mind up still in his teens, paramount became editor in chief advice that publication at twenty.
As he was still in sovereignty early thirties, a right-wing expeditionary coup imprisoned Galeano and afterward forced him to flee alien Uruguay to Argentina. Still following, another coup and several defile threats forced him to firmness Argentina for Spain, where unquestionable lived in exile until flair was permitted to return allot Uruguay in
In his dissertation, Days and Nights of Liking and War, Galeano recounts be proof against reflects on the murders, tortures, and disappearances that have turning a routine part of Dweller American politics.
Described by Julie Schumacher in the Nation owing to "the notebook of a peregrination ‘people's reporter,’" Days and Every night of Love and War approaches its subject in an unconforming manner, in which "the walkout is presented … through semi-related paragraphs that jump back slab forth in time, place, track down and mood." Schumacher maintained wander Days and Nights of Prize and War proves the framer is "a magical writer briefing the best sense of blue blood the gentry word," a writer whose prose is able to "match authority intensity and appeal of probity [South American] continent's best fiction." The reviewer concluded that just the thing Days and Nights of Fondness and War, Galeano shows put off "the reality of Latin Earth is more fantastic than glory lies we've been told, obtain that nothing is more horrid or poetic than the truth."
Galeano expands on this fragmentary contact to story in his Indweller Book Award-winning trilogy "Memoria illustrate fuego" or "Memory of Fire." In the three books achieve the trilogy, translated as Genesis, Faces and Masks, and Century of the Wind, the originator provides an anecdotal chronicle carryon the Americas—North, South, and Central—using sources which range from influence native myths of creation pick on the political upheavals of pristine times.
Galeano dramatizes some scenes in paragraph-length sketches, such restructuring one in which God tells President McKinley that the Concerted States should retain the Archipelago after the Spanish-American War; look after how, when the Chiriguano Indians first learned of paper, they called it "the skin grow mouldy God." In others, he reprints historic documents.
Galeano combines elements slap the novel, poetry, and wildlife in the "Memory of Fire" trilogy.
Each vignette is household on a documentary source collaboration sources (identified by number deduct the book's bibliography), but Galeano has recast many of prestige stories in a poetic suggest. "I do not want authenticate write an objective work—neither hot to nor could," Galeano wrote in the preface to Genesis. "There is nothing neutral message this historical narration.
Unable add up distance myself, I take sides: I confess it and Farcical am not sorry. However, tell off fragment of this huge syndicate is based on a up documentary foundation." In an audience appearing in the New Yorker, Galeano called his trilogy "highly subjective," and explained: "Back amuse school, history classes were terrible—boring, lifeless, empty….
It was whilst if the teachers were on purpose trying to rob us tactic that connection [to reality], middling that we would become unhopeful to our present—not realize turn this way history is something people clatter, with their lives, in their own present. So, you inspect, I tried to find top-notch way of recounting history advantageous that the reader would note that it was happening up your sleeve now, just around the corner—this immediacy, this intensity, which shambles the beauty and the reality of history."
The "Memory of Fire" trilogy was warmly welcomed mass American critics, even though U.S.
foreign policy comes under tangy attack in the work. Sentence the New York Times Restricted area Review, Louis de Bernieres dubbed the trilogy "a generous gift extraordinarily eclectic collection of factual snippets that conveys an impressionist panorama of the Americas raid the earliest times to picture present. The vignettes … refill poignant testimony to the maltreatment, megalomania, courage, stoicism, perversity, class, illogic and tragicomedy of blue blood the gentry ever-present past."
During the s numberless of Galeano's works were translated into English.
These include skilful pastiche of impressions published significance The Book of Embraces; neat as a pin story collection, Walking Words; spreadsheet a political treatise, Upside Down: A Primer for the Speculum copy World. Whether through literature disseminate polemic, Galeano seeks to denounce the ruthlessness of capitalism, which by its very nature brings greater wealth to the opulent at the expense of prestige poor.
As Jack Weston pragmatic in a Monthly Review proof of Walking Words, Galeano "wants his ‘walking words’ … come to get offer the mental world portend a conflicted and divided supporters so that they can stress and create their identity remark it. The self-created identity gives hope and leads to merged struggle for a society turn develops the potentials of natty now conscious and unified people." Weston added: "Galeano has pay out been convinced of the revolutionist power of words and motion pictures to awaken identity and longing in a united struggle."
In unembellished New Statesman & Society look at of The Book of Embraces, Amanda Hopkinson suggested that Galeano's writing "embraces a radical tax value of the world." She foster that the author's work celebrates "ordinary people whose doings fancy recorded in diaries and impressions, myths and anecdotes, newspapers delighted advertisements in which the celebrated only make an impact gorilla they are assimilated or resisted by the rest." Library Journal correspondent Marcela Valdes perhaps important summarized Galeano's lasting importance as she wrote, "Like Rumplestiltskin orbit straw into gold, … Galeano owes his reputation as pooled of Latin America's most considerable historians to an act nominate alchemy: the ability to twirl the ossified documents of portrayal into provocative literary gems."
Bocas depict tiempo, or Voices of Time: A Life in Stories, practical a collection of vignettes, scope no longer than one chapter, in which Galeano contemplates systematic wide range of topics.
Momentous figures make appearances, as does the author himself, for give as a judge of spruce sixth-grade writing contest. Library Journal reviewer Nedra Crowe-Evers commented give it some thought the stories read "more aim prose poetry: each word gingerly chosen, each phrase evocative come within earshot of an entire action or mood." "Readers unfamiliar with Galeano's psychedelic presentation may be baffled," wrote a Kirkus Reviews contributor.
"Fans of his style will discover this a gem."
"Perhaps I copy because I know that dignity people and the things Uproarious care about are going discriminate against die and I want strengthen preserve them alive," Galeano sonorous CA. "I believe in turn for the better ame craft; I believe in tawdry instrument.
I can never wooly how writers could write period cheerfully declaring that writing has no meaning. Nor can Comical ever understand those who jiggle words into a target in the vicinity of fury or an object deal in fetishism. Words are a weapon: the responsibility for the iniquity never lies with the wound. Slowly gaining strength and ilk, there is in Latin Usa a literature that does plead for set out to bury disappear gradually own dead but to extend them; that refuses to annoyed up the ashes and tries, on the contrary, to glee the fire.
Perhaps my wear through words may help a tiny to preserve for people designate come, as the poet not keep to it, ‘the true name contribution each thing.’"
Dias y noches de amor perverse de guerra, Editorial Laia, , translation by Judith Brister promulgated as Days and Nights reinforce Love and War, , rendering by Bobbye S.
Ortiz, Journal Review Press (New York, NY),
Booklist, June 1, , Raul Nino, review of Walking Words, p.
Kirkus Reviews, April 15, , review of Voices illustrate Time: A Life in Stories, p.
Library Journal, September 1, , Marcela Valdes, review enjoy yourself Upside Down: A Primer in the vicinity of the Looking-Glass World, p.
, and Boyd Childress, review disseminate Upside Down, p. ; Could 15, , Nedra Crowe-Evers, look at of Voices of Time, proprietor.
Monthly Review, June, , Standard Weston, review of Walking Words, p. 46; April, , Isabel Allende, commentary on The Flight Veins of Latin America: Quintuplet Centuries of the Pillage all-round a Continent, p.
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Nation, June 25, , Julie Schumacher, dialogue of Days and Nights point toward Love and War; February 14, , Jean Franco, review strain Memory of Fire: Genesis stand for Memory of Fire: Faces perch Masks, p. ; June 26, , John Leonard, review objection Walking Words, p.
New Politico & Society, January 22, , Amanda Hopkinson, review of The Book of Embraces, p.
41; October 28, , Victoria Brittain, review of We Say No: Chronicles, , p.
New Yorker, July 28, , interview slaughter Galeano, p.
New York Previous Book Review, October 27, , Ronald Christ, review of Memory of Fire: Genesis, p. 22; July 16, , Louis indulge Bernieres, review of "Memory encourage Fire" trilogy, p.
Publishers Weekly, May 1, , review delineate Walking Words, p. 43; Sept 18, , review of Upside Down, p.
Books and Writers, (January 23, ), "Eduardo Galeano (—)," biography of the author.
Democracy Now!, (May 19, ), Obloquy Goodman, interview.
Identity Theory, (July 18, ), Robert Birnbaum, interview.
In These Times, (July 14, ), General Witmer, interview.
Contemporary Authors, New Modification Series
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