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Los orígenes del relato: los lazos entre ficción y realidad en la obra de Gabriel García Márquez (in Spanish). Salamanca, Spain: University of Salamanca. ISBN 978-84-7800-803-2. McGrady, Donald (1972). "Acerca de una colección desconocida de relatos por Gabriel García Márquez" (PDF). Bulletin of the Caro and Cuervo Institute (in Spanish).
[1] "Big Mama's Funeral" (Spanish: Los funerales de la Mamá Grande) is a short story by Gabriel García Márquez.In the story, an unidentified narrator [2] tells a mythical account of a historical event summarized on the first page.
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. [1] The novella was written between 1956 and 1957 while the author was living in Paris in the Hotel des Trois Colleges [2] and was first published in 1958, in Mito Revista Bimestral de ...
First edition. Strange Pilgrims (Spanish: Doce cuentos peregrinos, lit. 'Twelve Pilgrim Stories') is a collection of twelve loosely related short stories by the Nobel Prize–winning Colombian writer Gabriel García Márquez.
Gabriel García Márquez was born on 6 March 1927 [b] in the small town of Aracataca, in the Caribbean region of Colombia, to Gabriel Eligio García and Luisa Santiaga Márquez Iguarán. [8] Soon after García Márquez was born, his father became a pharmacist and moved with his wife to the nearby large port city of Barranquilla , leaving young ...
The choice of García Márquez as the Nobel Prize Laureate in 1982 was enthusiastically well received by literary critics and readers around the world. [4] García Márquez was among the favourites to receive the prize, other candidates for the prize that got strong attention in the press this year were Octavio Paz, Marguerite Yourcenar and Nadine Gordimer.
García Márquez based his fictional dictator on a variety of real-life leaders, including Gustavo Rojas Pinilla of his Colombian homeland, Generalissimo Francisco Franco of Spain (the novel was written in Barcelona), François Duvalier of Haiti, and Venezuela's Juan Vicente Gómez. The product is a universal story of the disastrous effects ...
'See you in August') is a novel by Colombian author Gabriel García Márquez published posthumously in March 2024. [1] It was released on the 97th anniversary of his birth, 6 March. The only Marquez novel with a female protagonist, the stories in feature a woman's annual August trips to an island where her mother is buried and her lovers.