"Nobel Prize-winner Gabriel García Márquez, who rarely offers glimpses into his private life, says he has stopped writing for the time being, at least."
Secondary source, About García Márquez: The Man, the Reporter, the Writer
Publication Date:
December 16, 2005
Published:
New York, NY : Associated Press
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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International News
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"Exploratory peace talks between Colombia and its second-largest rebel group began in Cuba with help from Nobel Prize-winning author Gabriel García Márquez and facilitators from Spain, Norway, and Switzerland... "It should make them ashamed if they don't arrive at anything this time," said García Márquez, talking with officials on the sidelines of the event."
"Residents of the hometown of Nobel Prize-winning novelist Gabriel García Márquez failed to pass a referendum Sunday to change the town's name to Macondo, the fictitious tropical hamlet in his masterpiece 'One Hundred Years of Solitude.'"
Secondary source, About García Márquez: The Man, the Reporter, the Writer
Publication Date:
May 29, 2004
Published:
New York, NY : Associated Press
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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International News
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"The Colombian government is willing to talk peace with the smaller of the country's two rebel groups if it halts attacks, even if it doesn't lay down its arms, President Alvaro Uribe said Saturday. Before meeting with members of the Colombian community in Mexico City, including renowned novelist Gabriel García Márquez, Uribe said the National Liberation Army, or ELN, could quickly achieve peace without disbanding, as long it displays a willingness to negotiate."
Secondary source, About García Márquez: The Man, the Reporter, the Writer
Publication Date:
October 15, 2004
Published:
Swansea, Wales : South Wales Evening Post
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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"Swansea's Taliesin Arts Centre has a choice of dramatic viewing next week - from the comic talents of Italian playwright Dario Fo to the haunting poetic work of Gabriel García Márquez."
Secondary source, About García Márquez: The Man, the Reporter, the Writer
Publication Date:
July, 2003
Published:
México DF, México : La Jornada
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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Sección Cultura
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With 2,000 books, mostly novels, some donated by the Cultural Economic Fund, the first Latin American library in Canada opened in Quebec about a month ago. It was baptized with the name of the Colombian Nobel prize winner, Gabriel García Márquez.
"It was heartening, then, to read the next day of the new Gabriel García Márquez novel, Memories of My Melancholy Whores, which has just gone on sale in the Hispanophone world. García Márquez is 76 and unwell, but his book seems to be about sex,love and age, not age, death and funerals. Its principal character is a retired journalist, just turning 90, who decides to mark his birthday by sleeping with a 14-year old virgin prostitute (the book is set in Colombia in the 1950s, putting plenty of cultural distance between us and the uncomfortable morality of that time and place)."
Secondary source, Reviews of Gabriel García Márquez's Books and Stories
Publication Date:
December 17, 2005
Published:
Ontario, Canada : Toronto Star Newspapers
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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Books; C4
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"In the recently published first volume of his memoirs, Living to Tell the Tale, Gabriel García Márquez makes it clear right from the beginning that his autobiography won't just be about what really happened. His memory of events is in various places irreconcilable with "the facts." It is an old magical realist's dream of the past, not an attempt at historical recovery. Memories of My Melancholy Whores is a short novel, a novella really, written in much the same spirit."
Secondary source, About García Márquez: The Man, the Reporter, the Writer
Publication Date:
July-September, 2002
Published:
Barranquilla, Colombia : La casa de Asterión
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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Viewed on 24 January, 2008.||Interview with Gustavo Ibarra Merlano about García Márquez. Begins with a brief description of how Ibarra and García Márquez met. He provides a surplus of details about García Márquez and his education and what kind of person he was when they met. Then, the interviewer, asks Ibarra to compare La hojarasca to Antigone, who points out that they are similar because they both discuss power relations.