Eduardo Galeano

Eduardo Galeano is one of Latin America’s most admired
writers, as well as a distinguished journalist and
historian. Winner of the first Lannan Foundation
Cultural Freedom Prize in 1998, he is the author of Upside
Down, the Memory of Fire trilogy (for which
he won the 1989 American Book Award), Open Veins of Latin
America, and many other works. He lives in Montevideo, Uruguay.