11 Facts About Eduardo Galeano

Eduardo Hughes Galeano was a 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".

Author Isabel Allende, who said her copy of Eduardo 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.

Eduardo German Maria Hughes Galeano was born in Montevideo, Uruguay, on 3 September 1940.

Eduardo Galeano wrote under his maternal family name; as 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.

In 1973, a military coup took power in Uruguay; Eduardo Galeano was imprisoned and later was forced to flee, going into exile in Argentina where he founded the magazine Crisis.

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Eduardo Galeano fled again, this time to Spain, where he wrote his famous trilogy, Memoria del fuego, described as "the most powerful literary indictment of colonialism in the Americas.

At the beginning of 1985 Eduardo Galeano returned to Montevideo when democratization occurred.

On February 10, 2007, Eduardo Galeano underwent a successful operation to treat lung cancer.

Eduardo Galeano talked about how and why he has changed his writing style, and his recent rise in popularity.

Eduardo Galeano was an avid fan of football, writing most notably about it in Football in Sun and Shadow.

Eduardo Galeano died on 13 April 2015 in Montevideo from lung cancer at the age of 74, survived by third wife Helena Villagra and three children.