Uruguayan Expatriates in Spain

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 102. Not illustrated. Chapters: Eduardo Galeano, Diego Forl n, Mario Benedetti, Dar o Silva, Juan Carlos Onetti, Elio Garc a-Austt, Walter Pandiani, Ignacio Mar a Gonz lez, Cristina Peri Rossi, Gustavo Mun a, Jos Zalazar, Carlos Diogo, Fabi n Carini, Alejandro Lembo, Jorge Drexler, Esteban Batista, Fabi n Canobbio, Marcelo Romero, Gonzalo Garc a Garc a, Gonzalo Castro Irizabal, Eduardo Acevedo, Federico Magallanes, Diego Meijide, Mat as Alonso Vallejo. Excerpt: Eduardo Hughes Galeano (born September 3, 1940) is a Uruguayan journalist, writer and novelist. His most well known works are Memoria del fuego (Memory of Fire, 1986) and Las venas abiertas de Am rica Latina (Open Veins of Latin America, 1971) which have since been translated into twenty languages and transcend orthodox genres: combining fiction, journalism, political analysis, and history. The author himself has denied that he is a historian saying, "I'm a writer obsessed with remembering, with remembering the past of America above all and above all that of Latin America, intimate land condemned to amnesia." Galeano was born in Montevideo, Uruguay to a middle class Catholic family of European descent. Like many young Latin American boys, Galeano dreamed of becoming a football (soccer) player; this desire was reflected in some of his works, such as El F tbol A Sol Y Sombra (Football In Sun and Shadow). In his teens, Galeano worked odd jobs as a factory worker, a bill collector, a sign painter, a messenger, a typist, and a bank teller. At 14 years, Galeano sold his first political cartoon to the Socialist Party weekly, El Sol and married for the first time in 1959. He started his career as a journalist in the early 1960s as editor of Marcha, an influential weekly journal which had such contributors as Mario Vargas Llosa, Mario Benedetti, Manuel Maldonado Denis and Roberto ...