"Focuses on Edith Grossman's translations of Spanish literary masterpieces into the English language. Career background; Challenges in translating the works of Gabriel García Márquez; Background on her translation of "Don Quixote" by Miguel de Cervantes; Efforts of Grossman to promote literary works by lesser known Spanish writers; Faithfulness of literary translations."
"The bogus bootleg caper provided a surprise twist, and a flood of free publicity, to the book's Latin American release. The 112-page novella, [Gabriel García Márquez's] first major work of fiction in a decade, presents itself as the account of a washed-up newspaper columnist's desire to celebrate his 90th birthday by having sex with a young prostitute."
Secondary source, About García Márquez: The Man, the Reporter, the Writer
Publication Date:
August, 2004
Published:
Manchester, UK : The Guardian Unlimited
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Notes:
Viewed on 28 January, 2008.||"Unswerving defender of Fidel Castro and Latin American literary patriarch he may be, but Gabriel García Márquez appears to have finally succumbed to Hollywood's call, signing over the film rights to Love in the Time of Cholera."
Secondary source, About García Márquez: The Man, the Reporter, the Writer
Publication Date:
May, 2003
Published:
London, UK : BBC News Corporation
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Notes:
Viewed on 24 January, 2008.||"Leading Latin American writer Gabriel García Márquez has denied reports that he called for the legislation of drugs in his native Colombia as a way of ending widespread violence in the country. Mr. García Márquez- who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982- said he was against the legalization of drugs and that he had been misquoted."
Secondary source, About García Márquez: The Man, the Reporter, the Writer
Publication Date:
July 6, 2004
Published:
New York, NY : The New York Times
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Related Item Details:
153(52902) : E2
Notes:
Reports that authors like Woody Allen, Gabriel García Márquez and Margaret Atwood have contributed without fee or royalty to the book Telling Tales, a story collection compiled by Nadine Gordimer. Donation of the sales of the book to HIV and AIDS preventive education and medical treatment.
Analyzes " El mar de las lentejas" by Antonio Benítez Rojo. Briefly mentions similarities between this work and "Crónica de una muerte anunciada" by Gabriel García Márquez.