Montevidéu (Uruguai), 1940 – 2015

By Flávio Aguiar

Essayist, fiction writer, author of memoirs and history books, as well as a journalist, Eduardo Galeano became known in the continent and other parts of the world thanks to his book Open Veins of Latin America, published in 1971. In Uruguay, he was editor-in-chief of the weekly Marcha and the newspaper Época. After the 1973 coup d’état, he took refuge in Buenos Aires, where he founded the magazine Crisis, and later moved to Spain. He only returned to Uruguay in 1985.

He published Bocas del tiempo (2004), a book of intertwined short stories; Patas arriba – La escuela del mundo al revés (1998); El libro de los abrazos (1989); Días y noches de amor y de guerra (1978); La canción de nosotros (1975), a fiction work with which he won the Casa de las Américas Prize; Vagamundo (1973), among others. In Nosotros decimos no (1989), he compiled journalistic works from 1963 to 1988. In Brazil, he maintained ties with the magazine Versus, founded and directed by journalist Marcos Faerman, during the time of Crisis.