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Eduardo Galeano viene a Seattle

**Tuesday, May 16, 2006
University of Washington, Kane Hall, Room 120 at 6:30 pm. Admission is Free. No ticket required.
"Winding Roads in Times of Fear" (Walker Ames Lecture)

**Wednesday, May 17th at 7 p.m. at Microsoft AUditorium, Seattle Public Central Library, 1000 4th Avenue (A reading from Voices of Time, sponsored by Elliott Bay Book Company and the Seattle Public Library).

About his UW talk: Uruguayan writer Eduardo Galeano will open a space of encounter. His talk will begin with a reading, in English, of some short stories from his most recent book, "Bocas del tiempo". Afterwards, he will discuss a broad diversity of subjects. Guests be advised that limits and boredom will be strictly forbidden.

Eduardo Galeano was born 1940 in Montevideo, Uruguay. In 1960, Galeano started his career as a journalist. He was the editor-in-chief of Marcha, an influential weekly journal, which had such contributors as Mario Vargas Llosa, Mario Benedetti, Manuel Maldonado Denis and Roberto Fernández Retamar. For two years he edited the daily Épocha and worked as editor-in-chief of the University Press (1965-1973).

As a result of the military coup of 1973, he was imprisoned and then forced to leave Uruguay. By that time he had published a novel and several books on politics and culture. In Argentina he founded and edited a cultural magazine, Crisis.

Las venas abiertas de América Latina (The Open Veins of Latin America) made Galeano one of the most widely read Latin American writers. It was also the first book by the author to be translated into English. In the well-documented series of essays the central theme was the exploitation of natural resources of Latin America since the arrival of European powers at the end of the 15th century. The Open Veins of Latin America was written "in the style of a novel about love or about pirates", as the author himself said.

In 1975 Galeano received the prestigious Casa de las Américas prize for his novel La cancion de nosotros. After the military coup of 1976 in Argentina his name was added to the lists of those condemned by the death squads and he moved to Spain. Galeano lived mainly on the Catalan coast and started to write his masterpiece, Memory of Fire. In 1978 Galeano received again Casa de las Américas prize, this time for largely autobiographical work, Días y noches de amor y de guerra.

Galeano's best-known works include Memoria del fuego (1982-1986, Memory of Fire) and Las venas abiertas de América Latina (1971, The Open Veins of Latin America), which have been translated into some 20 languages. Galeano defies easy categorization as an author. His works transcend orthodox genres, and combine documentary, fiction, journalism, political analysis, and history. The author himself has denied that he is a historian: "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."

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