Eduardo Galeano

Uruguay, 1940

Eduardo Galeano is generally considered one of the most influential left-wing journalists and writers in Latin America.
His books have been translated into more than twenty different languages and transcend orthodox genres, combining reportage, fiction, journalism and political and historical analysis.

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By Eduardo Galeano

  • Women

    ANTOLOGY, 2015

    Women who were major historical figures and women who were erased from its pages, women who dream and women punished for dreaming, women who survive and women who help us to survive. The women in...

  • Children of the Days

    NARRATIVE, 2012

    Did you know that supposedly the most famous episode in Genesis, featuring Adam, Eve and the apple, doesn't actually appear in the Bible? That the Greek mathematician Eratosthenes measured the...

  • Upside Down. The school of the world in reverse

    NON FICTION, 1998

    After visiting Wonderland, Alice goes through the looking glass into an upside-down world. If Alice were to come back today, she wouldn't need a mirror, she'd just have to glance out the window....

  • Football in Sun and Shadow

    NON FICTION, 1995.

    This book pays homage to football, its bodily music and dancing eyes, while also denouncing the power structures of one of the most lucrative businesses in the world. ‘The technocracy of...

  • The book of hugs

    NON FICTION, 1989

    The Book of Hugs is a perfect example of the author's imagination at its most inspired. Celebrations, events, prophecies, chronicles, dreams, memories and hallucinations; extraordinarily delicious...

  • Memory Of Fire. 3 Century of the Wind

    NON FICTION, 1986

    Latin America has not just suffered the pillaging of its gold and silver, its rubber, copper and oil. Its memory has also been stolen so that it doesn't know where it comes from and can't tell...

  • Memory Of Fire. 2. Faces and Masks

    NON FICTION, 1984

    Latin America has not just suffered the pillaging of its gold and silver, its rubber, copper and oil. Its memory has also been stolen so that it doesn't know where it comes from and can't tell...

  • Memory Of Fire. 1. Genesis

    NON FICTION, 1982.

    Latin America has not just suffered the pillaging of its gold and silver, its rubber, copper and oil. Its memory has also been stolen so that it doesn't know where it comes from and can't tell...

  • The open veins of Latin America

    NON FICTION, 1971

    I wrote The Open Veins... to share other people's ideas and experiences of my own that I thought might be of some help, realistically, in addressing the questions that have always plagued us: Is...

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