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Eduardo Galeano

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Eduardo Galeano (1940-2015) was one of Latin America's most distinguished writers. A Uruguayan journalist, writer, and novelist, he is the author of the three-volume Memory of Fire, Open Veins of Latin America, Soccer in Sun and Shadow, and others. Born in Montevideo in 1940, he lived in exile in Argentina and Spain for years before returning to Uruguay. 

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