when did gabriel garcía márquez publish his first book
The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor


El Espectador" newspaper in 1955; it was later published as a book in 1970, and then translated into English by Randolph Hogan in 1986. The story is written in the first-person from the perspective of the sailor, 20-year-old Luis Alejandro Velasco, and was in fact signed by Velasco as author when it was first published in 1955. Not until 1970 when it was published as a book was García Márquez's name first publicly associated with the story. Nobel laureate Gabriel García Márquez began his literary career as
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The Fragrance of Guava


The Fragrance of Guava is a book based on the long conversations between Gabriel García Márquez and his close friend Plinio Apuleyo Mendoza. Published in 1982, the book describes the life of García Márquez, from his early childhood to his encounters with celebrities. The title of the book in Spanish is "El Olor de la Guayaba". It was translated as "The Fragrance of Guava"; however, the literal translation should be "The Smell of Guava". García Márquez and Mendoza met in Bogotá when they were 20 and
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Gerald Martin


Gerald Martin (born 1944) is a critic of Latin American fiction. He is particularly known for his work on the Guatemalan author Miguel Ángel Asturias and on the Colombian Gabriel García Márquez, both of whom are winners of the Nobel Prize for Literature. His 2008 book, "Gabriel García Márquez. A Life", was the first full biography of García Márquez to be published in English. Gerald Martin (London 1944) studied Spanish, French and Portuguese at Bristol (1965) and received his PhD in Latin American Literature
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Jomí García Ascot


(1982). He also began working on a novel, "La muerte empieza en Polanco" (Death Begins in Polanco), which was published posthumously. In 1965–66, García Ascot was a neighbor of the writer, Gabriel García Márquez. During the eighteen months that García Márquez worked on his book "One Hundred Years of Solitude", García Ascot and his wife visited García Márquez's house each night and critiqued the story as it developed. García Márquez dedicated the book to the couple with the inscription "Para (
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Living to Tell the Tale


Living to Tell the Tale (original Spanish-language title: "Vivir para contarla") is the first volume of the autobiography of Gabriel García Márquez. The book was originally published in Spanish in 2002, with an English translation by Edith Grossman published in 2003. "Living to Tell the Tale" tells the story of García Márquez' life from 1927 through 1950, ending with his proposal to his wife. It focuses heavily on García Márquez' family, schooling, and early career as a journalist and short story writer
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Márquez's native Aracataca. This novel was widely popular and led to García Márquez's Nobel Prize as well as the Rómulo Gallegos Prize in 1972. William Kennedy has called it "the first piece of literature since the Book of Genesis that should be required reading for the entire human race," and hundreds of articles and books of literary critique have been published in response to it. Despite the many accolades the book received, García Márquez tended to downplay its success. He once remarked: "Most critics don't realize that
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Mario Vargas Llosa


("García Márquez: historia de un deicidio"), which was his doctoral thesis for the Complutense University of Madrid. Although Vargas Llosa wrote this book-length study about his then friend, the Colombian Nobel laureate writer Gabriel García Márquez, they did not speak to each other again. In 1976, Vargas Llosa punched García Márquez in the face in Mexico City at the "Palacio de Bellas Artes", ending the friendship. Neither writer had publicly stated the underlying reasons for the quarrel. A photograph of García Márquez
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title, to be published by the end of the year. However, in April 2009 his agent, Carmen Balcells, told the Chilean newspaper "La Tercera" that García Márquez was unlikely to write again. This was disputed by Random House Mondadori editor Cristobal Pera, who stated that García Márquez was completing a new novel called "We'll Meet in August" ("En agosto nos vemos"). In December 2008, García Márquez told fans at the Guadalajara book fair that writing had worn him out. In 2009
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day for eighteen months. His wife had to ask for food on credit from their butcher and their baker as well as nine months of rent on credit from their landlord. During the eighteen months of writing, García Márquez met with two couples, Eran Carmen and Álvaro Mutis, and María Luisa Elío and Jomí García Ascot, every night and discussed the progress of the novel, trying out different versions. When the book was finally published in 1967 it became his most commercially successful novel, "One Hundred Years of Solitude"
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The Solitude of Latin America


"The Solitude of Latin America" is the title of the speech given by Gabriel García Márquez upon receiving his Nobel Prize in Literature on 8 December 1982. The Nobel Prize was presented to García Márquez by Professor Lars Gyllensten of the Swedish Academy. García Márquez gained fame for his novel "One Hundred Years of Solitude", first published in 1967. According to the Nobel Foundation, García Márquez was awarded the 1982 Nobel Prize in Literature for “his novels and short stories, in which the fantastic and the realistic are combined
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Leaf Storm


Leaf Storm is the common translation for Gabriel García Márquez's novella La Hojarasca. First published in 1955, it took seven years to find a publisher. Widely celebrated as the first appearance of Macondo, the fictitious village later made famous in "One Hundred Years of Solitude", "Leaf Storm" is a testing ground for many of the themes and characters later immortalized in said book. It is also the title of a short story collection by García Márquez. The other stories compiled in the English translation are “The Handsomest
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. Three years later the couple's second son, Gonzalo, was born in Mexico. Gonzalo is currently a graphic designer in Mexico City. "Leaf Storm" ("La Hojarasca") is García Márquez's first novella and took seven years to find a publisher, finally being published in 1955. García Márquez notes that "of all that he had written (as of 1973), "Leaf Storm" was his favorite because he felt that it was the most sincere and spontaneous." All the events of the
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They were out in a boat one day and were murdered by the boatman with his oars. García Márquez notes, "Through their death, the story of their secret romance became known. I was fascinated by them. They were each married to other people." "News of a Kidnapping" ("Noticia de un secuestro") was first published in 1996. It is a non-fiction book that examines a series of related kidnappings and narcoterrorist actions committed in the early 1990s in Colombia by the Medellín Cartel,
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The Fragrance of Guava


a calculated conversation, that explains the whole life of García Márquez and his opinions, from politics to women. The book includes fourteen chapters about the different details of Gabriel García Márquez's life, from his origins, family, readings and influences to his works, politics, women, superstitions, and fame. The conversation began talking about the personal life of the author, the ancestors of García Márquez, Aracataca his hometown, his grandparents; the book describes several of events that influenced García Márquez works, how his grandmother talked
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on 6 March 1927 in Aracataca, Colombia, to Gabriel Eligio García and Luisa Santiaga Márquez Iguarán. Soon after García Márquez was born, his father became a pharmacist and moved, with his wife, to Barranquilla, leaving young Gabriel in Aracataca. He was raised by his maternal grandparents, Doña Tranquilina Iguarán and Colonel Nicolás Ricardo Márquez Mejía. In December 1936, his father took him and his brother to Sincé, while in March 1937, his grandfather died; the family then moved first (back) to Barranquilla and then
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No One Writes to the Colonel


No One Writes to the Colonel () is a novella written by the Colombian novelist and Nobel Prize in Literature winner Gabriel García Márquez. It also gives its name to a short story collection. García Márquez considered it his best book, saying that he had to write "One Hundred Years of Solitude" so that people would read "No One Writes to the Colonel". The novel, written between 1956 and 1957 while living in Paris in the Hotel des Trois Colleges and first published in 1961, is the story of
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Of Love and Other Demons


Of Love and Other Demons (Spanish: Del amor y otros demonios) is a novel by Colombian author Gabriel García Márquez, first published in 1994. In the prologue, García Márquez claims the novel is the fictional representation of a legend the author was told by his mother as when he has 14 years old: of a 12-year-old girl who contracts rabies but was believed to be a 'miracle-worker', with long flowing copper hair that continues to grow after death. In this frame-story, it
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Venezuela Gráfica". García Márquez was a "committed Leftist" throughout his life, adhering to socialist beliefs. In 1991 he published "Changing the History of Africa", an admiring study of Cuban activities in the Angolan Civil War and the larger South African Border War. García Márquez maintained a close but "nuanced" friendship with Fidel Castro, praising the achievements of the Cuban Revolution but criticizing aspects of governance and working to "soften [the] roughest edges" of the country. García Márquez's political and ideological views
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" was published in 1981, the year before García Márquez was awarded the 1982 Nobel Prize in Literature. The novel was also adapted into a film by Italian director Francesco Rosi in 1987. "Love in the Time of Cholera" ("El amor en los tiempos del cólera") was first published in 1985. It is considered a non-traditional love story as "lovers find love in their 'golden years'—in their seventies, when death is all around them". "Love in the Time of Cholera" is
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Editorial Bruguera


in 1974, so they started to publish material by Jorge Amado, Jorge Luis Borges, García Márquez, Juan Marsé o Juan Carlos Onetti. They also launched two pocket book collections: "Libro Clásico" and "Libro Amigo". In the early 1980s books such as "Chronicle of a Death Foretold" by Gabriel García Márquez became big best-sellers. Despite this, the publishing house filed for bankruptcy on 7 June 1982. In 1986 it was acquired by Grupo Z and transformed into Ediciones B. It was briefly relaunched
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16 years old respectively; seven years later in Paris, García Márquez contacted Mendoza. Gabriel García Márquez had met his best friend. Mendoza became a friend who helped García Márquez during the most difficult years: he fed him, offered a job, gave him money, read his manuscripts, he protected him. Plinio Apuleyo Mendoza recognized "And he paid back more than the things I could do for him". An editorial proposed to Plinio to write a book about his best friend, Plinio discussed the idea with García Márquez
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Pedro Páramo


Pedro Páramo" has been translated into more than 30 different languages and the English version has sold more than a million copies in the United States. Gabriel García Márquez has said that he felt blocked as a novelist after writing his first four books and that it was only his life-changing discovery of "Pedro Páramo" in 1961 that opened his way to the composition of his masterpiece, "One Hundred Years of Solitude". Moreover, García Márquez claimed that he "could recite the whole book, forwards and backwards.
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Although García Márquez did portray the corrupt nature and the injustices of times like "la violencia", he refused to use his work as a platform for political propaganda. "For him, the duty of the revolutionary writer is to write well, and the ideal novel is one that moves its reader by its political and social content, and, at the same time, by its power to penetrate reality and expose its other side. García Márquez's work is an important part of the Latin American Boom of literature. His
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Mundo Nuevo


Infante, Severo Sarduy, Manuel Puig but also helped then-new writers such as Gabriel García Márquez, Carlos Fuentes, Mario Vargas Llosa, or José Donoso. During 1966, "Mundo Nuevo" prepublished two chapters of García Márquez's breakthrough novel "One Hundred Years of Solitude" one year before the book's release; Monegal explained, "I wanted to prepare the ground for the book, which came out in 1967." "Mundo Nuevo" contributed to the 1960s publishing phenomenon dubbed "The Boom" in Latin
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a novel like "One Hundred Years of Solitude" is a bit of a joke, full of signals to close friends; and so, with some pre-ordained right to pontificate they take on the responsibility of decoding the book and risk making terrible fools of themselves." After writing "One Hundred Years of Solitude" García Márquez returned to Europe, this time bringing along his family, to live in Barcelona, Spain, for seven years. The international recognition García Márquez earned with the publication of the novel led to
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was labeled as a subversive and for many years was denied visas by U.S. immigration authorities. After Bill Clinton was elected U.S. president, he lifted the travel ban and cited "One Hundred Years of Solitude" as his favorite novel. García Márquez was inspired to write a dictator novel when he witnessed the flight of Venezuelan dictator Marcos Pérez Jiménez. He said, "it was the first time we had seen a dictator fall in Latin America." García Márquez began writing "Autumn of the Patriarch" ("El otoño del
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he called "Papalelo", was a Liberal veteran of the Thousand Days War. The Colonel was considered a hero by Colombian Liberals and was highly respected. He was well known for his refusal to remain silent about the banana massacres that took place the year after García Márquez was born. The Colonel, whom García Márquez described as his "umbilical cord with history and reality," was also an excellent storyteller. He taught García Márquez lessons from the dictionary, took him to the circus each year, and was the first
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on to Sucre, where his father started up a pharmacy. When his parents fell in love, their relationship met with resistance from Luisa Santiaga Márquez's father, the Colonel. Gabriel Eligio García was not the man the Colonel had envisioned winning the heart of his daughter: he (Gabriel Eligio) was a Conservative, and had the reputation of being a womanizer. Gabriel Eligio wooed Luisa with violin serenades, love poems, countless letters, and even telephone messages after her father sent her away with the intention of separating the
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Garcia Marquez had lived for more than three decades. A funeral cortege took the urn containing his ashes from his house to the Palacio de Bellas Artes, where the memorial ceremony was held. Earlier, residents in his home town of Aracataca in Colombia's Caribbean region held a symbolic funeral. While there are certain aspects readers can almost always expect in García Márquez's writing, like instances of humour, he did not stick to any clear and predetermined style template. In an interview with Marlise Simons, García Márquez noted:In
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the novel, the imaginary country is situated somewhere in the Caribbean. García Márquez gave his own explanation of the plot: My intention was always to make a synthesis of all the Latin American dictators, but especially those from the Caribbean. Nevertheless, the personality of Juan Vicente Gomez [of Venezuela] was so strong, in addition to the fact that he exercised a special fascination over me, that undoubtedly the Patriarch has much more of him than anyone else. After "Autumn of the Patriarch" was published García Márquez and
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novella take place in one room, during a half-hour period on Wednesday 12 September 1928. It is the story of an old colonel (similar to García Márquez's own grandfather) who tries to give a proper Christian burial to an unpopular French doctor. The colonel is supported only by his daughter and grandson. The novella explores the child's first experience with death by following his stream of consciousness. The book also reveals the perspective of Isabel, the Colonel's daughter, which provides a feminine point of view.
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Book censorship in China


2012, Chinese government has authorized 580 Chinese state-owned publishers to publish more than 16,000 foreign books, including well-known books such as Henry Kissinger's "On China" and Gabriel García Márquez's “One Hundred Years of Solitude”. In 2015, 12 American publishers,including Penguin Random House,Macmillan Publishers,W. W. Norton& Company, signed a pledge to oppose against Chinese government's censorship targeting foreign authors' works. Many foreign authors found that some of their books' content was removed when translating into
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Tom Maschler


Thomas Michael Maschler (born 16 August 1933) is a British publisher and writer. The son of Austrian Jews, he was five when his family fled to England from Vienna after the Nazi annexation of Austria. After Leighton Park School, he travelled widely, worked on a kibbutz and did national service before going on to work in publishing. In his role as head of Jonathan Cape, he discovered and published many writers including Gabriel García Márquez, Ian McEwan and Bruce Chatwin, to whom he acted as an informal patron.
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. García Márquez's background in journalism provided a foundational base for his writing career. Literary critic Bell-Villada noted, "Owing to his hands-on experiences in journalism, García Márquez is, of all the great living authors, the one who is closest to everyday reality." García Márquez was one of the original founders of QAP, a newscast that aired between 1992 and 1997. He was attracted to the project by the promise of editorial and journalistic independence. García Márquez met Mercedes Barcha while she was at school
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García Márquez published the memoir "Vivir para contarla", the first of a projected three-volume autobiography. Edith Grossman's English translation, "Living to Tell the Tale", was published in November 2003. October 2004 brought the publication of a novel, "Memories of My Melancholy Whores" ("Memoria de mis putas tristes"), a love story that follows the romance of a 90-year-old man and a pubescent concubine. "Memories of My Melancholy Whores" caused controversy in Iran, where it was
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patriarca") in 1968 and said it was finished in 1971; however, he continued to embellish the dictator novel until 1975 when it was published in Spain. According to García Márquez, the novel is a "poem on the solitude of power" as it follows the life of an eternal dictator known as the General. The novel is developed through a series of anecdotes related to the life of the General, which do not appear in chronological order. Although the exact location of the story is not pin-pointed in
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Nieto wrote on Twitter, "I wish him a speedy recovery". Colombian president Juan Manuel Santos said his country was thinking of the author and said in a tweet "All of Colombia wishes a speedy recovery to the greatest of all time: Gabriel García Márquez". García Márquez died of pneumonia at the age of 87 on 17 April 2014 in Mexico City. His death was confirmed by his relative Fernanda Familiar on Twitter, and by his former editor Cristóbal Pera. The Colombian president Juan Manuel Santos mentioned: "One
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, "One Hundred Years of Solitude". After arriving at Sucre, it was decided that García Márquez should start his formal education and he was sent to an internship in Barranquilla, a port on the mouth of the Río Magdalena. There, he gained a reputation of being a timid boy who wrote humorous poems and drew humorous comic strips. Serious and little interested in athletic activities, he was called "El Viejo" by his classmates. García Márquez spent his first years of high school, from 1940, in the
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achieved significant critical acclaim and widespread commercial success, most notably for popularizing a literary style known as magic realism, which uses magical elements and events in otherwise ordinary and realistic situations. Some of his works are set in the fictional village of Macondo (mainly inspired by his birthplace, Aracataca), and most of them explore the theme of solitude. Upon García Márquez’s death in April 2014, Juan Manuel Santos, the President of Colombia, called him "the greatest Colombian who ever lived." Gabriel García Márquez was born
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Strange Pilgrims


Strange Pilgrims (original Spanish-language title: "Doce cuentos peregrinos") is a collection of twelve loosely related short stories by the Nobel Prize–winning Colombian writer Gabriel García Márquez. Not published until 1992, the stories that make up this collection were originally written during the seventies and eighties. Each of the stories touches on the theme of dislocation and the strangeness of life in a foreign land, although quite what "foreign" means is one of García Márquez's central questions. García Márquez himself spent some years as
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in which the fantastic and the realistic are combined in a richly composed world of imagination, reflecting a continent's life and conflicts". His acceptance speech was entitled "The Solitude of Latin America". García Márquez was the first Colombian and fourth Latin American to win a Nobel Prize for Literature. After becoming a Nobel laureate, García Márquez stated to a correspondent: "I have the impression that in giving me the prize, they have taken into account the literature of the sub-continent and have awarded me as a
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Juan Rulfo


, 24 January 1964). Gabriel García Márquez has said that he felt blocked as a novelist after writing his first four books and that it was only his life-changing discovery of "Pedro Páramo" in 1961 that opened the way to the composition of his masterpiece, "One Hundred Years of Solitude". He noted that all of Rulfo's published writing, put together, "add up to no more than 300 pages; but that is almost as many and I believe they are as durable, as the pages
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In Evil Hour


In Evil Hour () is a novel by Colombian writer Gabriel García Márquez, first published (in an edition disowned by the author) in 1962. Written while García Márquez lived in Paris, the story was originally entitled "Este pueblo de mierda" ("This Town of Shit" or "This Shitty Town"). Rewritten, it won a literary prize in Colombia. Some of the same characters and situations found in "La mala hora" later re-appear in "Cien años de soledad". "
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his family moved from Barcelona to Mexico City and García Márquez pledged not to publish again until the Chilean Dictator Augusto Pinochet was deposed. However, he ultimately published "Chronicle of a Death Foretold" while Pinochet was still in power as he "could not remain silent in the face of injustice and repression." "The Incredible and Sad Tale of Innocent Eréndira and Her Heartless Grandmother" () presents the story of a young mulatto girl who dreams of freedom, but cannot escape the reach of her avaricious grandmother. The
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boarding house was burned. García Márquez transferred to the Universidad de Cartagena and began working as a reporter of "El Universal". In 1950, he ended his legal studies to focus on journalism and moved again to Barranquilla to work as a columnist and reporter in the newspaper "El Heraldo". Though García Márquez never finished his higher studies, some universities, like Columbia University, New York, have given him an honorary doctorate in writing. García Márquez began his career as a journalist while studying law at the National University
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Tiphanie Yanique


Short Fiction", "The London Magazine", "Prism International", "Callaloo", "Boston Review". Her first novel "Land of Love and Drowning" was published by Riverhead Books in 2014, and was described by "Publishers Weekly" as "an affecting narrative of the Virgin Islands that pulses with life, vitality, and a haunting evocation of place", and the reviewer for "BookPage" wrote: "Yanique’s vivid writing, echoing Toni Morrison and Gabriel García Márquez, builds a whole
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the first trips I had made with my grandfather, but I discovered only as an adult that I liked its poetic resonance. I never heard anyone say it and did not even ask myself what it meant...I happened to read in an encyclopedia that it is a tropical tree resembling the Ceiba. In several of García Márquez's works, including "No One Writes to the Colonel", "In Evil Hour", and "Leaf Storm", he referenced "La Violencia" (the violence), "a
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News of a Kidnapping


News of a Kidnapping (original Spanish title: "Noticia de un secuestro") is a non-fiction book by Gabriel García Márquez. It was first published in Spanish in 1996, with an English translation released in 1997. The book recounts the kidnapping, imprisonment, and eventual release of a handful of prominent figures in Colombia in the early 1990s by the Medellín Cartel, a drug cartel founded and operated by Pablo Escobar. The book begins with an account of the abductions of Maruja Pachón and Beatriz Villamizar de Guerrero the
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Márquez a world-class literary education and provided him with a unique perspective on Caribbean culture. From 1954 to 1955, García Márquez spent time in Bogotá and regularly wrote for Bogotá's "El Espectador". He was a regular film critic which drove his interest in film. In December 1957, García Márquez accepted a position in Caracas in the magazine "Momento" directed by his friend Plinio Apuleyo Mendoza. He arrived to the Venezuelan capital on 23 December 1957, and began working right away at "Momento". García
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modern literature. In an interview with Claudia Dreifus in 1982 García Márquez notes his relationship with Castro is mostly based on literature: "Ours is an intellectual friendship. It may not be widely known that Fidel is a very cultured man. When we’re together, we talk a great deal about literature." This relationship was criticized by Cuban exile writer Reinaldo Arenas, in his 1992 memoir "Antes de que Anochezca" (Before Night Falls). Due to his newfound fame and his outspoken views on U.S. imperialism Garcia Márquez
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One Hundred Years of Solitude


the Cuban "Vanguardia" (Avant-Garde) literary movement. Since it was first published in May 1967 in Buenos Aires by Editorial Sudamericana, "One Hundred Years of Solitude" has been translated into 37 languages and sold more than 30 million copies. The novel, considered García Márquez's "magnum opus", remains widely acclaimed and is recognized as one of the most significant works in the Spanish literary canon. Gabriel García Márquez was one of the four Latin American novelists first included in the literary Latin American Boom of
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Louis de Bernières


suffers from dystonia, which affects his playing. It was his experiences in Colombia (as well as the influence of writer Gabriel García Márquez, describing himself as a "Márquez parasite") that, he says, profoundly influenced his first three novels, "The War of Don Emmanuel's Nether Parts" (1990), "Señor Vivo and the Coca Lord" (1991) and "The Troublesome Offspring of Cardinal Guzman" (1992). De Bernières' most famous book is his fourth, "Captain Corelli's
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María Luisa Elío


film. She also acted in the film. Shooting only on weekends because the trio all had regular jobs, the film took a year to produce and was not a commercial success, though it did win awards. Elío and her husband were personal friends of the writer Gabriel García Márquez and his masterwork, "One Hundred Years of Solitude" was dedicated to them with the inscription, “Para (to) Jomí García Ascot y María Luisa Elío”. In the eighteen months that he took to write the book, they
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solitude is the theme of all your books, where should we look for the roots of this over-riding emotion? In your childhood perhaps?" García Márquez replied, "I think it's a problem everybody has. Everyone has his own way and means of expressing it. The feeling pervades the work of so many writers, although some of them may express it unconsciously." In his Nobel Prize acceptance speech, "Solitude of Latin America", he relates this theme of solitude to the Latin American experience,
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José Gabriel García


Cuba, Spain, the United States and the Dominican Republic. José Gabriel García had the opportunity to witness and be a protagonist of some of the events in his works. In 1862, José Gabriel García and his twin brother, , founded García Hermanos, which included a library, a book store and a publishing and printing company. According to historian Frank Moya Pons, García Hermanos was the first printing and publishing company in the Dominican Republic properly established and it was the leading publishing and editorial company of the 19th and early
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Banana Massacre


Gabriel García Márquez depicted a fictional version of the massacre in his novel "One Hundred Years of Solitude", as did Álvaro Cepeda Samudio in his "La Casa Grande". Although García Márquez references the number of dead as around three thousand, the actual number of dead workers is unknown. The workers of the banana plantations in Colombia went on strike on November 12, 1928. The workers made nine demands from the United Fruit Company: The strike turned into the largest labor movement ever witnessed in the country until then.
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A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings


"A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings" () and subtitled "A Tale for Children" is a short story by Colombian writer and author Gabriel García Márquez. The tale was first published in 1955 in Spanish and was then published in English in the 1972 book, "Leaf Storm and Other Stories". The short story involves a very old man with enormous wings who appears in a family's backyard on a stormy night. What follows are the reactions of the family, a town, and outside visitors. This
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Love in the Time of Cholera (film)


Love in the Time of Cholera is a 2007 film directed by Mike Newell. Based on the novel "Love in the Time of Cholera" by Gabriel García Márquez, it tells the story of a love triangle between Fermina Daza (played by Giovanna Mezzogiorno) and her two suitors, Florentino Ariza (Javier Bardem) and Doctor Juvenal Urbino (Benjamin Bratt) which spans 50 years, from 1880 to 1930. Producer Scott Steindorff spent over three years courting Gabriel García Márquez for the rights to the book telling him that he was
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The Autumn of the Patriarch


The Autumn of the Patriarch (original Spanish title: "El otoño del patriarca") is a novel written by Gabriel García Márquez in 1975. A "poem on the solitude of power" according to the author, the novel is a flowing tract on the life of an eternal dictator. The book is divided into six sections, each retelling the same story of the infinite power held by the archetypical Caribbean tyrant. García Márquez based his fictional dictator on a variety of real-life fascists, including Gustavo Rojas Pinilla of
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Ryszard Kapuściński


, the friend and associate of Gabriel García Márquez, reports that García Márquez and Kapuściński, unbeknownst to each other, shared the opinion that the way to good journalism led through poetry (on account of the fact that it inculcates both the conciseness of expression and its aptness). Kapuściński considered the ancient Greek historian Herodotus a great reporter and his master. He wrote a book "Travels with Herodotus" where he shows that the "Histories" of Herodotus are timeless and the masterpiece of reportage. He also considered Curzio Malaparte,
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The General in His Labyrinth


The General in His Labyrinth (original Spanish title: ) is a 1989 dictator novel by Colombian writer and Nobel laureate Gabriel García Márquez. It is a fictionalized account of the last seven months of Simón Bolívar, liberator and leader of Gran Colombia. The book traces Bolívar's final journey from Bogotá to the Caribbean coastline of Colombia in his attempt to leave South America for exile in Europe. Breaking with the traditional heroic portrayal of Bolívar , García Márquez depicts a pathetic protagonist, a prematurely aged man who is physically ill and mentally
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; they decided to wait for her to finish before getting married. When he was sent to Europe as a foreign correspondent, Mercedes waited for him to return to Barranquilla. Finally they married in 1958. The following year, their first son, Rodrigo García, now a television and film director, was born. In 1961, the family traveled by Greyhound bus throughout the southern United States and eventually settled in Mexico City. García Márquez had always wanted to see the Southern United States because it inspired the writings of William Faulkner
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Tamas Galambos


Tamas Galambos (born 1939, Budapest, Hungary) is a Hungarian contemporary artist. His 1981 painting 'Summer' is featured on the book cover of the Penguin Classics edition of "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel García Márquez. This successful book cover design is also available in a poster format. Another of his main works, the Trojan Horse (1994) is on the cover of the history course book "Antiquity 1", published by Oxford University Press. Tamas Galambos is one of five artists representing Hungarian
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reality behind it ... ." "This is surely because their rationalism prevents them seeing that reality isn't limited to the price of tomatoes and eggs." The theme of solitude runs through much of García Márquez's works. As Pelayo notes, ""Love in the Time of Cholera", like all of Gabriel García Márquez's work, explores the solitude of the individual and of humankind...portrayed through the solitude of love and of being in love". In response to Plinio Apuleyo Mendoza's question, "If
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Rodrigo Moya (photographer)


a publisher, Moya’s house became a gathering place for Colombians in Mexico. He was friends with writer Gabriel García Márquez, who he met in the 1950s. In 1977, Moya took a notable photograph of García Márquez with a black eye he received from Mario Vargas Llosa. At age 70, Moya suffered a long illness, which prompted him and his wife Susan Flaherty to move out of Mexico City into Cuernavaca, where the couple still lives. The move prompted Moya to revisit the boxes of photographs and negatives from his
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a drug cartel founded and operated by Pablo Escobar. The text recounts the kidnapping, imprisonment, and eventual release of prominent figures in Colombia, including politicians and members of the press. The original idea of the book was proposed to García Márquez by the former minister for education Maruja Pachón Castro and Colombian diplomat Luis Alberto Villamizar Cárdenas, both of whom were among the many victims of a Pablo Escobar's attempt to pressure the government to stop his extradition by committing a series of kidnappings, murders and terrorist actions. In 2002,
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, responding to claims by both his literary agent and his biographer that his writing career was over, he told Colombian newspaper "El Tiempo": "Not only is it not true, but the only thing I do is write". In 2012, his brother Jaime announced that García Márquez was suffering from dementia. In April 2014, García Márquez was hospitalized in Mexico. He had infections in his lungs and his urinary tract, and was suffering from dehydration. He was responding well to antibiotics. Mexican president Enrique Peña
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Macondo


Macondo is a fictional town described in Gabriel García Márquez's novel, "One Hundred Years of Solitude". It is the home town of the Buendía family. Macondo is often supposed to draw from García Márquez's childhood town, Aracataca. Aracataca is located near the north (Caribbean) coast of Colombia, 80 km south of Santa Marta. In June 2006, there was a referendum to change the name of the town to Aracataca Macondo. In the first chapter of his autobiography, Living to Tell the Tale, García
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Latin American literature


onto the world stage. It was distinguished by daring and experimental novels such as Julio Cortázar's "Rayuela" (1963), that were frequently published in Spanish and quickly translated into English. From 1966 to 1968, Emir Rodríguez Monegal published his influential Latin American literature monthly "Mundo Nuevo", with excerpts of unreleased novels from then-new writers such as Guillermo Cabrera Infante or Severo Sarduy, including two chapters of Gabriel García Márquez's "Cien años de soledad" in 1966. In 1967, the published book was
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being dichotomizing and exoticizing, "what is really at stake is a psychological suppleness which is able to inhabit unsentimentally the daytime world while remaining open to the promptings of those domains which modern culture has, by its own inner logic, necessarily marginalised or repressed." García Márquez and his friend Plinio Apuleyo Mendoza discuss his work in a similar way,"The way you treat reality in your books ... has been called magical realism. I have the feeling your European readers are usually aware of the magic of your stories but fail to see the
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Museum of Modern Art . He has collaborated with various writers to design and illustrate their books including Gabriel García Márquez, Seamus Heaney and Bert Schierbeek, with books containing his work published in Mexico, Spain and England. These include The Golden Bough (1992), Light of the Leaves (1999), Vivir para contarla (2004) and After Nature (Spanish language version) in 2005. Most contain serigraphs. A portion of his work since the 2000s has been murals and other works related to architecture, collaborating with numerous
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), "Fruta verde", "La sangre erguida" (winner of the Antonin Artaud Prize) and "La doble vida de Jesús". His short stories, collected in his books "Amores de segunda mano", "El orgasmógrafo" and "La ternura caníbal" have been included in most anthologies of contemporary Mexican short stories. In 2003 Gabriel García Márquez named Serna as one of the best Mexican short story writers in an anthology published by "Cambio" review. As an essayist, Serna has published three
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of writers and journalists known as the Barranquilla Group, an association that provided great motivation and inspiration for his literary career. He worked with inspirational figures such as Ramon Vinyes, whom García Márquez depicted as an Old Catalan who owns a bookstore in "One Hundred Years of Solitude". At this time, García Márquez was also introduced to the works of writers such as Virginia Woolf and William Faulkner. Faulkner's narrative techniques, historical themes and use of rural locations influenced many Latin American authors. The environment of Barranquilla gave García
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shortly afterwards García Márquez denied being the author of the poem, which was determined to be the work of a Mexican ventriloquist. He stated that 2005 "was the first [year] in my life in which I haven't written even a line. With my experience, I could write a new novel without any problems, but people would realise my heart wasn't in it." In May 2008, it was announced that García Márquez was finishing a new "novel of love" that had yet to be given a
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Rafael Uribe Uribe


, 1914 after he was attacked with axes the day before by two workers named Jesús Carvajal and Leovigildo Galarza. Local authorities believed it to be an act of terrorism, but those suspicions were never confirmed. According to an interview given by Gabriel García Márquez to Plinio Apuleyo Mendoza in his book El Olor de la Guayaba (The Guava's Smell), the character of Colonel Aureliano Buendía in One Hundred Years of Solitude was loosely based on Rafael Uribe Uribe. García Márquez's grandfather was under Uribe Uribe's command in the Thousand
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and MA at Humboldt State University and a PhD at the University of Alberta. Following those studies, he began to perform music and teach literature at MacEwan University. In the twenty-first century, Katz has turned to writing on music and other cultural topics. Palgrave Macmillan published his academic study of novels, "Music and Identity in Twentieth Century Literature from Our America: Noteworthy Protagonists", a book that considers links between music and literature in works by Gabriel García Márquez, Alejo Carpentier, Zora Neale Hurston, John Okada
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I of the vortex: from neurons to self


"I of the vortex: from neurons to self" is a popular science book by the Colombian neuroscientist Rodolfo Llinás, published in February 2002 by MIT Press.and whose Spanish edition features a prologue by his friend, Nobel laureate Gabriel García Márquez. The book is considered a best seller for scientific dissemination and won the "best health book" award at the International Latino Book Award Fair in BookExpo America 2013, in New York, and according to Google Scholar has received more than 1000 citations. The book traces the history of neuroscience
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Gianni Minà


Fonda, Gabriel García Márquez, and Enzo Ferrari. In 1987 he interviewed Cuban President Fidel Castro for the first time. This 16-hour encounter was part of a documentary that later went on to become a classic. The documentary was later published as a book around the world. The historic interview also served as the primary source for "Fidel Racconta il Che" (Fidel Talks About Che), a report in which the Cuban leader, for the first and only time, discusses the heroic deeds of Ernesto Che Guevara. In
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to introduce his grandson to ice—a "miracle" found at the United Fruit Company store. He would also occasionally tell his young grandson "You can't imagine how much a dead man weighs", reminding him that there was no greater burden than to have killed a man, a lesson that García Márquez would later integrate into his novels. García Márquez's grandmother, Doña Tranquilina Iguarán Cotes, played an influential role in his upbringing. He was inspired by the way she "treated the extraordinary as something perfectly natural
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work has challenged critics of Colombian literature to step out of the conservative criticism that had been dominant before the success of "One Hundred Years of Solitude". In a review of literary criticism Robert Sims notes, Following his death, García Márquez's family made the decision to deposit his papers and some of his personal effects at The University of Texas at Austin's Harry Ransom Center, a humanities research library and museum. García Márquez received the Nobel Prize in Literature on 8 December 1982 "for his novels and short stories,
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Juan Villoro


of prose, due to the large number of varying influences that chronicles can require. He began writing theater when he was 50 years old. As a rock music fan, Villoro collaborated with Mexican band Café Tacuba on the songs "Sashimi (Corte fino)" and "Laberinto" for the film Vivir mata, directed by Nicolás Echevarría. Villoro is also a professor at the Gabriel García Márquez Foundation for New Iberoamerican Journalism and was a member of the dean's council for the Gabriel García Márquez Prize for Journalism, which meets
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Víctor Rodríguez Núñez


influential anthologies that have defined his poetic generation: Most recently, he introduced and compiled a major anthology of 20th century poetry in Cuba, "Poesía cubana: Antología esencial", for the Spanish publisher Visor (Madrid: 2011). His book-length study on Gabriel García Márquez’s non-fiction, "Cien años de solidaridad" (Havana: Unión, 1986) was awarded the Enrique José Varona Prize in 1986. Rodríguez Núñez has published various critical editions, introductions, and essays on Spanish American poets including:
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Gabriela Alemán


Ana Matute, and others. In 2014 Alemán won the first place CIESPAL de Crónica award, for her article "Los limones del huerto de Elisabeth", and the Joaquín Gallegos Lara award, for her book of stories "La Muerte silba un blies" on 2014. The author was a finalist on Premio Hispanoamericano del Cuento Gabriel García Márquez in 2015, together with other four writers from Lanitamerica. The award is known as the most important narrative awards in Spanish and 136 books published in 2014 from 19 countries authors participated.
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" (Stories), which featured such individuals as the Dalai Lama, Luis Sepúlveda, Martin Scorsese, Naomi Campbell, John Kennedy, and Pietro Ingrao. Two books were later published based on this program. One of his written works, "Continente desaparecido" (The Disappeared Continent), consisted of a series of interviews with Gabriel García Márquez, Jorge Amado, Eduardo Galeano, Rigoberta Menchú, mons. Samuel Ruiz, Frei Botto, Pombo and Urbano, friends of the late Che Guevara from Bolivia. This book later
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's film was released in April 2010. The same novel was adapted by Hungarian composer Péter Eötvös to form the opera "Love and Other Demons", premiered in 2008 at Glyndebourne Festival. In 1999, García Márquez was diagnosed with lymphatic cancer. Chemotherapy provided by a hospital in Los Angeles proved to be successful, and the illness went into remission. This event prompted García Márquez to begin writing his memoirs: "I reduced relations with my friends to a minimum, disconnected the telephone, canceled the trips and all sorts of
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"The interpretation of our reality through patterns not our own, serves only to make us ever more unknown, ever less free, ever more solitary." Another important theme in many of García Márquez's work is the setting of the village he calls Macondo. He uses his home town of Aracataca, Colombia as a cultural, historical and geographical reference to create this imaginary town, but the representation of the village is not limited to this specific area. García Márquez shares, "Macondo is not so much a place as
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Isabel Allende


ghosts of the Pinochet dictatorship. The book was rejected by numerous Latin American publishers, but eventually published in Buenos Aires. The book soon ran to more than two dozen editions in Spanish and was translated into a score of languages. Allende was compared to Gabriel García Márquez as an author in the style known as magical realism. Although Allende is often cited as a practitioner of magical realism, her works also display elements of post-Boom literature. Allende also holds to a very strict writing routine. She writes on a computer
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were shaped by his grandfather's stories. In an interview, García Márquez told his friend Plinio Apuleyo Mendoza, "my grandfather the Colonel was a Liberal. My political ideas probably came from him to begin with because, instead of telling me fairy tales when I was young, he would regale me with horrifying accounts of the last civil war that free-thinkers and anti-clerics waged against the Conservative government." This influenced his political views and his literary technique so that "in the same way that his writing career
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tent with the dead body of her grandmother. Eréndira and her grandmother make an appearance in "One Hundred Years of Solitude", an earlier novel by García Márquez. "The Incredible and Sad Tale of Innocent Eréndira and Her Heartless Grandmother" was published in 1978. The novella was adapted to the 1983 art film "Eréndira", directed by Ruy Guerra. "Chronicle of a Death Foretold" ("Crónica de una muerte anunciada"), which literary critic Ruben Pelayo called a combination of journalism, realism and detective
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Thomas Pynchon


In 1975, Pynchon declined the William Dean Howells Medal. A collection of Pynchon's early short stories, "Slow Learner", was published in 1984, with a lengthy autobiographical introduction. In October of the same year, an article titled "Is It O.K. to Be a Luddite?" was published in the "New York Times Book Review". In April 1988, Pynchon contributed an extensive review of Gabriel García Márquez's novel "Love in the Time of Cholera" to "The New York Times", under
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Mo Yan


and began writing while he was still a soldier. During this post-Revolution era when he emerged as a writer, both the lyrical and epic works of Chinese literature, as well as translations of foreign authors such as William Faulkner and Gabriel García Márquez, would make an impact on his works. In 1984, he received a literary award from the "PLA Magazine", and the same year began attending the People's Liberation Army Arts College, where he first adopted the pen name of Mo Yan. He published his
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The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor


After drifting with sea currents for ten days, he arrives with his raft on a coast that he later discovers to be Colombia. He is received first with affection and later with military honors and much money from publicity agencies. Luis Alejandro Velasco Rodríguez left the Navy and began to work in the private sector, starting with a job in a bus company. He eventually settled into work as a commercial agent in an insurance company in Bogotá. When Gabriel García Márquez published the story fifteen years later — in 1970 — in the
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initially took shape in conscious opposition to the Colombian literary status quo, García Márquez's socialist and anti-imperialist views are in principled opposition to the global status quo dominated by the United States." Ending in controversy, his last domestically written editorial for "El Espectador" was a series of 14 news articles in which he revealed the hidden story of how a Colombian Navy vessel's shipwreck "occurred because the boat contained a badly stowed cargo of contraband goods that broke loose on the deck." García Márquez compiled this story
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young couple. Her parents tried everything to get rid of the man, but he kept coming back, and it was obvious their daughter was committed to him. Her family finally capitulated and gave her permission to marry him (The tragicomic story of their courtship would later be adapted and recast as "Love in the Time of Cholera".) Since García Márquez's parents were more or less strangers to him for the first few years of his life, his grandparents influenced his early development very strongly. His grandfather, whom
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a state of mind, which allows you to see what you want, and how you want to see it." Even when his stories do not take place in Macondo, there is often still a consistent lack of specificity to the location. So while they are often set with "a Caribbean coastline and an Andean hinterland... [the settings are] otherwise unspecified, in accordance with García Márquez's evident attempt to capture a more general regional myth rather than give a specific political analysis." This fictional town has become
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banned after an initial 5,000 copies were printed and sold. Critics often describe the language that García Márquez's imagination produces as visual or graphic, and he himself explains each of his stories is inspired by "a visual image," so it comes as no surprise that he had a long and involved history with film. He was a film critic, he founded and served as executive director of the Film Institute in Havana, was the head of the Latin American Film Foundation, and wrote several screenplays. For his first script
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Memories of My Melancholy Whores


Memories of My Melancholy Whores () is a novella by Gabriel García Márquez. The book was originally published in Spanish in 2004, with an English translation by Edith Grossman published in October 2005. The proper translation of the title would be "memory of my sad whores", being that "melancholy" is a word whose meaning is far more intricate than Spanish "triste" (the Spanish word for "melancholy" is "melancólico", not "triste") and Spanish "triste" translates best to the English
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Colegio jesuita San José (today Instituto San José) where he published his first poems in the school magazine "Juventud". Later, thanks to a scholarship given to him by the government, Gabriel was sent to study in Bogotá where he was relocated to the Liceo Nacional de Zipaquirá, a town located one hour from the capital, where he would finish his secondary studies. During his time at the Bogotá study house, he excelled in various sports, becoming team captain of the Liceo Nacional Zipaquirá team in three disciplines,
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Andrés Felipe Solano


Iberoamericano, chaired by Gabriel García Márquez in 2008. He also published "Corea, apuntes desde la cuerda floja", a non-fiction book about his life in South Korea, which received the 2016 Premio Biblioteca de Narrativa Colombiana prize. His third novel, "Cementerios de neón (2017)" is partly based in a Colombian veteran from the Korean war. His work has appeared in "The New York Times Magazine", "McSweeney's", "Words Without Borders" and "World Literature Today".
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Ilan Stavans


beginnings, and calls Hispanic civilization to task for its reluctance to undertake constructive self-criticism. In addition, he discusses the work of numerous writers: Borges, Franz Kafka, Isaac Babel, Sholem Aleichem, Gabriel García Márquez, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Octavio Paz, Samuel Johnson, Edward Said, Miguel de Cervantes, and others. He also reflects on anti-Semitism and anti-Hispanic sentiment. Stavans has devoted many years of study to the work of Márquez. He wrote a biography, "Gabriel García Márquez:
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