Eduardo Galeano

Author, editor and journalist

Eduardo Galeano, born in Montevideo, Uruguay, in 1940, entered journalism as a political caricaturist and later was the editor of various weekly and daily papers.

In 1973 he went into exile in Argentina, where he founded and edited the magazine Crisis. He lived in Spain from 1976 to 1984 and then returned to Uruguay, where he now lives.

He is the author of "Memory of Fire: Genesis (Volume One)", "Faces and Masks (Volume Two)", and "Century of the Wind (Volume Three)". Other works are "Open Veins of Latin America", "Days and Nights of Love and War", "The Book of Embraces", "Walking Words", and "Football in Sun and Shadow" published by Fourth Estate in England.

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