Viewed on 29 January, 2008. || Clee criticizes the Man Booker International Prize by stating that it is absurd to try and decide from a list of authors, Gabriel García Márquez included, which one has created most continuously and developed most impressively.
This article states that Graciela Sanchez, "a trained filmmaker who studied at the Nuevo Cine Latino Americano in Cuba under Nobel Prize winner Gabriel García Márquez," created a film festival that focuses on women.
In this review of Angie Cruz's Thrilling, Chilling Tales of Alien Encounters, Hughs states that her "debut work compared to García Márquez," and "the Boston Globe compared her writing to that of Gabriel García Márquez."
Contreras states that in Washington Middle School "there are long hallways decorated with student essays in Spanish and English about activist Cesar Chavez, Actress Rita Moreno, and Nobel Laureate Gabriel García Márquez."
In talking about Malala's essay, Write the beloved Country, Roberts states that "in praising Zakes Mda as "reminiscent of Gabriel García Márquez", Mr. Malala seems unaware that Mda rejects that comparison as condescending."
In this review of Salvador Plascencia McSweeney's The People of Paper Hernandez states that "It's hard not to draw comparisons between Slavador Plascencias's first novel, "The People of Paper", and Gabriel García Márquez's seminal masterpiece, "One Hundred Years of Solitude"." He also states that "Plascencia acknowledges García Márquez as a major influence in his writing, but "The People of Paper" strays from being the "One Hundred Years of Solitude" for turn-of-this-century Southern California when it ventures into the world of Federico's enemy, sadness."
In the review of Dai Sijile's book, Mr. Muo's Travelling Couch, Yanofsky states that "In the early 1970's when critics began using the label magic realism to describe Latin American writers like Gabriel García Márquez and Mario Vargas Llosa, the writers being labeled found themselves in something of a predicament. They were being praised, but they weren't quite sure for what. As far as they were concerned, they were simply describing what they saw and lived every day."
In talking about three Colombian Fugitives de Breadun mentions that "Colombia is the heartland of "magic realism", the literary genre associated with the country's most famous writer, Gabriel García Márquez."
Lewis states that "There can't be many choral works that have been written on a boat, but last year I wrote the libretto for an oratorio based on a short story by Gabriel García Márquez, while my husband and I were rescuing our boat from Ceuta, a Spanish enclave in Morocco."
In discussing Aimee Bender's writing Caldwell states that "Gabriel García Márquez once famously explained the credibility of magical realism by referring to the priest in "One Hundred Years of Solitude" who levitates each time he drinks a cup of hot chocolate: it's the chocolate, García Márquez said, that makes the levitation real. In Bender's world, the opposite holds true: her scaffoldings of unreality are there to hold the humanity within the story."
"The film version of [Jorge] Franco's second novel, "Rosario tijeras," just opened in Colombia, where it has been doing boffo business. Franco is the biggest-selling author from Colombia since Nobel Prize winner Gabriel García Márquez."
In the introduction to a discussion on a Scottish book Linklater questions the similarity between the writing styles of the Scottish author and Gabriel García Márquez.
Viewed on 29 January, 2008. || In a review of Madam Secretary: A Memoir By Madeleine K. Albright Rehman discusses a part in the book in which Albright meets Gabriel García Márquez. "When "Mr. Gabo" visited Washington, he invited her for a lunch. Seizing this opportunity, Albright went to a bookstore and packed a huge bag with books authored by Márquez, getting them autographed by him. He also counseled her saying, "when you write your memoir, don't get angry." Readers would note that she had paid attention to that advice in each chapter."
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After reviewing a work based on Romeo and Juliet de Quiros suggests that those interested in this work also read Gabriel García Márquez's Love in the Time of Cholera, which he states is "the one book that has been compared to his incomparable One Hundred Years of Solitude." He goes on to discuss the plot and other works that have to do with love.
In describing his books as surrealism Sean Murphy states, "It's like what Gabriel García Márquez would say about South America: "It's not surreal. That's the way life is here." You don't have to push it too far for it to become absurd."
In this review of Hayle Harbour's play A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings Martin states that, "The show is inspired by Gabriel García Márquez's magical realist story about an old man with huge, dirty buzzard wings who crash-lands in a small village."
Before his short story Peralta quotes Gabriel García Márquez: "What matters in life is not what happens to you, but what you remember, and how you remember it."
In talking about his travels abroad Robert Elms mentions his trip to Colombia and states that "My wife and I rented an 18th-century conquistador house in Cartagena for our 10-week honeymoon and out neighbor turned out to be Gabriel García Márquez. We went to his 60th birthday party."
The Times uses the quote "The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast." by Gabriel García Márquez.
Viewed on 29 January, 2008. || This article discuses Mexican interior minister Carlos Maria Abascal. The article states that "Abascal, who was labour minister, has a reputation for creating disputes and rows. Most famously he had a furious public row with his daughter's (exclusive, Catholic) school over the unsuitability of the books she was being encouraged to read. The books, it transpired, were by Nobel laureates such as Gabriel García Márquez and Carlos Fuentes."
In discussing the book Kremlin Rising, by Peter Baker and Susan Glasser, which is about Russia, Olivia Ward states that "In the summer of 1996, Russia was in the middle of an election that could have been written by Gabriel García Márquez: A tottering, barely articulate Boris Yeltsin was groping for another term in power; alarmists warned of doom if power slipped from his hands."
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In talking about Colombian singer Shakira the Canberra Times state that " Nobel Laureate novelist Gabriel García Márquez is a fan, saying, "No one can sing or dance like her." "
In critiquing writer Mark Kurlansky for insulting president Bush, the Investor's Business Daily stated that, " Novelist Gabriel García Márquez, whose "One Hundred Years of Solitude" was said to be Clinton's all-time favorite, not only refrained from insulting the president, but he rose in his defense. Speaking of Clinton's sexual escapade, Márquez said the president "only wanted to do what every man has done and hidden from his wife since the beginning of time." "
This Article discusses the conflict that has arisen in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, about the title of Gabriel García Márquez's book Memories of My Melancholy Whores.
"Colombian author Gabriel García Márquez has been asked informally to help mediate with Fidel Castro in the case of a Cuban doctor banned from leaving the island for Argentina, where her son and grandchildren are residents."
The Edmonton Sun announces that director Brit Mike Newell, "is in negotiations to direct the epic Love in the Time of Cholera, Based on the novel by Nobel Prize-winning author Gabriel García Márquez."