22.12.2010 13:01
Eduardo Galeano wins Vázquez Montalbán prize
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The Uruguayan writer has won the VII Premio Internacional de Periodismo Manuel Vázquez Montalbán, as announced by the director of the Fundación FCB Josep Cortada today in Sala París.
The nomination of Eduardo Galeano was attended by club president Sandro Rosell and many other
members of the board, plus several previous winners, such as Juan Villoro, Joaquim Maria Puyal and
Ramon Besa. The award will be presented in early 2011.
The winner
Eduardo Galeano was born on September 3, 1940 in Montevideo (Uruguay) and has
become a prominent journalist and author in his country and Latin America. He started in the 1960s
as editor of Marcha and later the newspaper Época. In 1973 he was imprisoned and forced to leave
the country, going to Argentina where he founded the cultural magazine "Crisis". He has gone on to
forge a career as a writer in genres from documentaries to fiction, and political and historical
analysis.
His book 'El fútbol a sol ya sombra' (1995) was one of the most important Spanish language
football books ever written. His books have been translated into more than twenty languages,
including 'Memoria del fuego' (1986) and 'Las venas Abiertas de América latina' (1971). In 2010 we
won the prestigious Stig Dagerman award for literature in Sweden.
Two prizes
The Premio Internacional de Periodismo Manuel Vázquez Montalbán offers prizes for
sports journalism and cultural and political journalism and is the brainchild of the Fundación FC
Barcelona, along with the Col•legi de Periodistes de Catalunya, who believe sport to form
part of culture, and work in this area to promote better lifestyles and social cohesion, happiness
and coexistence.
Seven year history
It was created in 2004 and pays tribute to a true master of the written word in
Manuel Vázquez Montalbán and seeks to stimulate creative journalism that respects faithfulness to
the same civil values that were so present in the life and works of the man after whom the award is
named.
Jury of seventh edition
The members of the jury this year were Sandro Rosell, Ramón Puente, Carles
Vilarrubí, Josep Cortada, Daniel Vázquez, Mňnica Terribas, Joaquim Maria Puyal, Borja de Riquer ,
Jordi Basté, Anton M. Espadaler, Jaume Pujol-Galcerán, Simon Kuper and Ramon Besa.
Eduardo Galeano, winner of the VII edición del Premio Internacional de Periodismo Manuel
Vázquez Montalbán.