Eduardo Galeano
Eduardo Galeano, born in Montevideo, Uruguay, in 1940 is an essayist, journalist, historian, and activist. Galeano’s books include the trilogy Memory of Fire; The Book of Embraces; We Say No; and Walking Words.
Galeano, who received the first Lannan Prize for Cultural Freedom, has said, “I’m trying to create a synthesis of all different ways of expressing life and reality…I tried to find a way of recounting history so that the reader would feel that it was happening right now, just around the corner—this immediacy, this intensity, which is the beauty and the reality of history.”
Galeano’s Mirrors: Stories of Almost Everyone (Espejos: una historia casi universal) will be published in English by Nation Books in the spring of 2009.
Eduardo Galeano elsewhere on Lannan.org
1999 Lannan Cultural Freedom Prize awarded to Eduardo Galeano, 1999, (Cultural Freedom: Awards and Grants)Eduardo Galeano and Sebastião Salgado with Amy Goodman, 2000, (Events)
Eduardo Galeano with John Leonard, 2006, (Events)
Eduardo Galeano with Lawrence Weschler, 1999, (Events)
Eduardo Galeano with Michael Silverblatt, 2009, (Events)
Eduardo Galeano Lannan Podcast Episodes
Eduardo Galeano with John Leonard, 31 May 2006 - AudioEduardo Galeano with Michael Silverblatt, 10 June 2009
Eduardo Galeano, Reading, 3 November 2000 - Video
Sebastiao Salgado, Reading, 3 November 2000 - Video
Sebastiao Salgado and Eduardo Galeano with Amy Goodman, Conversation, 3 November 2000 - Video
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