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Eduardo Galeano
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Uruguayan writer and journalist (1940–2015)
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Eduardo Germán María Hughes Galeano was a Uruguayan and Spanish poet, writer, journalist, and essayist who wrote in Spanish. Born in Montevideo on September 3, 1940, he began his work period in 1956. He resided in Montevideo throughout his life and died there on April 13, 2015. His cause of death was lung cancer, classified as natural causes.
Galeano is noted for his work *Open Veins of Latin America*. His literary contributions have been included in the collection of the Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes. He received the Stig Dagerman Prize and the American Book Awards. Additionally, he was nominated for the Neustadt International Prize for Literature.
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Eduardo Hughes Galeano 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' and 'Memoria del fuego'.
Known for
- Gracias Diego — Self2020
- Ferreira Gullar: Arqueologia do Poeta — Self2019
- Rodolfo Walsh - El documental — Él mismo2019
- Eduardo Galeano, Vagamundo — Self2018
- Tie Your Plow to a Star2017
- One Hundred Years with Juan Rulfo — Self2017
- Shadow World — Self - Stories Narrator (voice)2016
- Ilusión Nacional — Self (voice)2014
- A vuelo de pajarito2014
- Serrat & Sabina: Two for the Road — Himself2013
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- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Spain
- Place of birth
- Montevideo
- Place of death
- Montevideo
- Occupation
- essayist
- Languages spoken
- Spanish
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- Residence
- Montevideo
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- Eduardo Galeano
- date of birth
- 1940-09-03
- date of death
- 2015-04-13
- cause of death
- lung cancer
- nominated for
- Neustadt International Prize for Literature
- birth name
- Eduardo Germán María Hughes Galeano
- start of work period
- 1956-00-00
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- 48002
- manner of death
- natural causes
- writing language
- Spanish
- has works in the collection
- Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes
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Encyclopedic overview
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."
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