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Berkeley Arts & Letters and KPFA-FM Present An Evening with EDUARDO GALEANO
One of Latin America's most distinguished writers, journalists and historians, Eduardo Galeano is the author of the Memory of Fire Trilogy, Open Veins of Latin America, Soccer in Sun and Shadow, and many other works. Born in Montevideo, in 1940, Galeano lived in exile in Argentina and Spain for many years before returning to Uruguay. His work has inspired popular and classical music composers from all over the world. He was the recipient of the first Lannan Prize for Cultural Freedom. He has just been awarded 'The Outstanding Citizen of the South', a new prize awarded by the Common Market of the South. Galeano's admirers include Isabelle Allende, Julio Cortazar, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Subcomandante Marcos, Doris Lessing, Ariel Dorfman, Arundhati Roy, Sandra Cisneros, Sebasti£o Salgado, Mike Davis, John Leonard, N. Scott Momaday, Studs Terkel, Howard Zinn, Naomi Klein, John Berger, Hugo Chavez and Rosie Perez. Michael Dirda in the Washington Post compared his work to Kafka and Borges.
Galeano's book Open Veins of Latin America is a canonical text in Latin America and to radicals around the world, and has jumped to the top of bestseller lists after Hugo Chavez presented President Obama with a copy at their recent meeting.
Ruminative and philosophical, his new book Mirrors is a history of the human adventure distilled into potent, lyrical morsels. Timeless stories barely longer than aphorisms, and carrying their moral force. Epic volumes boiled down to their poetic essence. Galeano calls it his most ambitious project since Memory of Fire, the landmark recreation of 500 years in the Americas. In Mirrors, his canvas widens to take in 5,000 years of history and the breadth of the world, retold as a series of breathtakingly immediate human stories. Characteristic of Galeano, Mirrors looks at the world and its histories upside down -- against horror, against defeat, against oblivion as one critic put it -- recounting, in his inimitably impish and mystical way, the songs and stories of humanity that have been forgotten or condemned to posterity.
These portraits of thinkers and the feelers, the curious, condemned for asking, rebels and losers and lovely lunatics who were and are the salt of the earth, illuminate grander movements of ideas and society across the centuries.
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LocationFirst Congregational Church of Berkeley
2345 Channing Way
Berkeley, CA 94704
United States
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