For two years he edited the daily Época and worked as editor-in-chief of the University Press. As a journalist throughout the 1960s Galeano rose in prominence among leftist publications, and became editor of Marcha, an influential weekly with contributors such as Mario Vargas Llosa, Mario Benedetti, Manuel Maldonado Denis and Roberto Fernández Retamar. Galeano's passion for drawing continued throughout his life his vignettes can be seen in many of his later books while his signature was often accompanied by a small hand-drawn pig.
The Uruguayan socialist weekly first published the teenager's comics prior to his writing. Galeano wrote under his maternal family name as a young man, he briefly wrote for a Uruguayan socialist publication, El Sol, signing articles as "Gius," "a pseudonym approximating the pronunciation in Spanish of his paternal surname Hughes." Galeano's family belonged to the fallen Uruguayan aristocracy.Īfter completing two years of secondary school, Galeano went to work at age fourteen in various jobs, including messenger and fare collector. His two family names were inherited from Welsh and Italian (from Genoa) great-grandfathers the other two were from Germany and Spain. "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." Īuthor 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." Life Įduardo Germán María Hughes Galeano was born in Montevideo, Uruguay, on 3 September 1940. 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). Eduardo Hughes Galeano ( Spanish pronunciation: 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".
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