Galeano: Teacher who awakened the conscience of the Peoples with his literary works (+Christmas)

The journalist and writer Eduardo Germán Hughes Galeano was born on September 3, 1940 in Montevideo, Uruguay, to the Catholic womb of Italian, Spanish, Welsh and German descent.

Galeano was the winner of the Stig Dagerman Prize and considered to be one of the most outstanding writers in Latin American literature. At 14, he sold his first political cartoon to the weekly newspaper El Sol , of the Socialist Party.

He began his journalism career in 1960, writing and editing for the publications “Marcha” and “Época”. In 1973 he was imprisoned and then forced into exile from Uruguay by the military government. He moved to Argentina, where he founded the cultural magazine “Crisis”.

In 1976, the military government headed by Jorge Rafael Videla came to power, which brought Galeano back into exile, this time to Spain. During his exile, in 1976, he wrote the trilogy “Memory of Fire”, composed of three titles that cover, from different literary genres, the history of Latin America: “Births”, “Faces and Masks”, and “The Century of the Wind ”, which were published between 1982 and 1986.

In 1985 he founded the weekly “Brecha”. In February 2007, the Uruguayan writer overcame lung cancer, and returned to his usual life between books and media. For 2010, he won the outstanding Stig Dagerman literary prize in Sweden.

“The Open Veins of Latin America” and “The Book of Embraces” literary piece recommended by the Leader of the Bolivarian Revolution Hugo Chávez.

The cancer that afflicted him in 2007 returned and he couldn't bear them, and he died on April 13, 2015 at 74 years of age.

Mazo News Team