Eduardo Galeano, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Uruguayan writer
Date of Birth: 03-Sep-1940
Place of Birth: Montevideo, Montevideo Department, Uruguay
Date of Death: 13-Apr-2015
Profession: writer, poet
Nationality: Uruguay
Zodiac Sign: Virgo 
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About Eduardo Galeano
- Eduardo Hughes Galeano (Spanish pronunciation: [e'ðwa?ðo ?ale'ano]; 3 September 1940 – 13 April 2015) was an Uruguayan journalist, writer and novelist considered, among other things, "global soccer's pre-eminent man of letters" and "a literary giant of the Latin American left".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 Trilogy, 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."Author Isabel Allende, who said her copy of Galeano's book was one of the few items with which she fled Chile in 1973 after the military coup of Augusto Pinochet, called Open Veins of Latin America, "a mixture of meticulous detail, political conviction, poetic flair, and good storytelling."
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