Eduardo Galeano

Eduardo Galeano
Sunday, May 31 at 7:00 p.m.
Saint Brigid's Centre for the Arts and Humanities
314 Saint Patrick Street (at Cumberland) If you hadn't heard of Galeano a few months ago, you certainly did recently when Hugo Chavez presented Obama with his book Open Veins of Latin America and it promptly shot up the bestseller list. Galeano is a Uruguayan journalist, writer and novelist. His 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 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." We hope to see you there! You won't want to miss it.