Secondary source, About García Márquez: The Man, the Reporter, the Writer
Publication Date:
July, 1999
Published:
UK : BBC News
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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Viewed on 24 January, 2008.|"Actor Antonio Banderas is to follow-up his recent directorial debut with a TV series based on six unpublished stories by Nobel laureate Gabriel García Márquez."
Secondary source, About García Márquez: The Man, the Reporter, the Writer
Publication Date:
October 26, 2004
Published:
Birmingham, UK : Midland Independent Newspapers PLC
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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"Some 50,000 copies of Memorias de mis putas tristes, the latest novel by Nobel Prize winning author Gabriel García Márquez, went on sale in Venezuela yesterday amid high demand that prompted the publisher to order another 20,000 copies."
Viewed on 28 January, 2008.||Reviews Living to Tell the Tale through a series of collected reviews from sources such as Daily Telegraph, FAZ, The LA Times, Neue Zürcher Zeitung, New Statesman, The NY Times, Newsweek, The Observer, Sydney Morning Herald, and The Washington Post. The overall assessment was of a grade of A: considered an utterly engaging memoir and generally found it very enjoyable.
In discussing Tomas Eloy Martinez, the author states, "He was shortlisted for the first Man Booker International Prize in 2005 and has been garlanded with praise by Gabriel García Márquez, Mario Vargas Llosa and Carlos Fuentes, among others."
Secondary source, Reviews of Gabriel García Márquez's Books and Stories
Publication Date:
October 19, 2005
Published:
New York, NY : The New York Sun
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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In his review of Gabriel García Márquez's Memories of My Melancholy Whores, Adam Kirsch discusses the controversy around the novel's subject matter. In his article he states that "Mr. García Márquez manages to deflect moral or even psychological judgment on the acts of his characters because the "magic" of his fiction annuls the "realism" that is supposed to go along with it."
This article presents Adam Zagajewski's acceptance speech for his Neustadt International Prize for Literature. He remarks on how much of an honor it is to be part of a list of great authors including Gabriel García Márquez.
Secondary source, About García Márquez: The Man, the Reporter, the Writer
Publication Date:
April, 2003
Published:
Slate, MSN
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Notes:
Viewed on 24 January, 2008. ||Waldman states that novels are not selling as one would expect them to, mainly due to the lack of interest from the public in modern novels. Waldman reiterates that people would rather read the classics than read a modern novel; therefore, publishing companies will be spending more money on promoting classics.
"In 2001, Nichols left Bana and opened Macondo Design in Middle Island, which she named after the magical village in 100 years of Solitude, a novel by Gabriel García Márquez. The name struck a cord with Nichols, who said, I help peoples' dreams come true."