Eduardo Galeano Volume II VHS - Lannan Literary Videos, 75 Author:Eduardo Galeano Eduardo Galeano, born in Montevideo, Uruguay, in 1940, is an essayist, journalist, historian, and political activist. He has written passionately about the effects of imperialist exploitation and the violence in Latin American society. Mr. Galeano, who uses elements of the novel, poetry, and scholarship in his trilogy, Memory of Fire, has said, ... more »"Im trying to create a synthesis of all different ways of expressing life and reality...I tried to find a way of recounting history so that the reader would feel that it was happening right now, just around the cornerthis immediacy, this intensity, which is the beauty and the reality of history." Mr. Galeano, who received the 1999 Lannan Prize for Cultural Freedom, read on April 22, 1999.« less