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Eduardo Galeano: Memory of Fire
August 27, 2020 · 24 min

Works by Eduardo Galeano

Memory of Fire Volume One: Genesis

Memory of Fire Volume Two: Faces and Masks

Memory of Fire Volume Three: Century of the Wind

Children of the Days: A Calendar of Human History 

Soccer in Sun and Shadow

Las venas abiertas de américa latina (ebook)

 

Other Related Books or Materials

The Pan American: The World of Eduardo Galeano (link opens an August 2018 article from The Nation)

Women of the Mine - Les Mujeres de la mina - 2006 Film

My Hero: Eduardo Galeano by Tariq Ali (link opens an April 2015 article from The Guardian)

Eduardo Galeano (photo) "His vivid survey of the Latin American past is an impressive achievement." (link opens a photograph by Reg Innell in 1988 from TPL’s Special Collections, part of the Toronto Star Archives)

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About the Host

Novelist Randy Boyagoda is a professor of English at the University of Toronto and principal of St. Michael’s College, where he holds the Basilian Chair in Christianity, Arts, and Letters. He is the author of three novels: Original PrinBeggar's Feast, and Governor of the Northern Province. His fiction has been nominated for the Scotiabank Giller Prize (2006) and IMPAC Dublin Literary Prize (2012), and named a New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice Selection (2012 and 2019) and Globe and Mail Best Book (2018). He contributes essays, reviews, and opinions to publications including the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, First Things, Commonweal, Harper’s, Financial Times (UK), Guardian, New Statesman, Globe and Mail, and National Post, in addition to appearing frequently on CBC Radio. He served as President of PEN Canada from 2015-2017.

Music is by Yuka

 

From the Archives

Writers Off the Page: 40 Years of TIFA is the first series associated with the Toronto Public Library’s multi-year digital initiative, From the Archives, which presents curated and digitized audio, video and other content from some of Canada’s biggest cultural institutions and organizations.

Thanks to the Toronto International Festival of Authors (TIFA) for allowing TPL access to their archives to feature some of the best-known writers in the world from moments in the past. Thanks as well to Library and Archives Canada for generously allowing TPL access to these archives.