In discussing Edith Grossman’s nomination for the Manheim Medal Marcela Valdes states "The Manheim Medal, which is awarded only once every three years, recognizes a lifetime of excellence in translation, and, at 70, Grossman's earned it by a fat margin. For 35 years, she's brought Latin American stars such as Mayra Montero and Mario Vargas Llosa into English. Most recently, Gabriel García Márquez won a Los Angeles Times Book Award with her translation of Memories of My Melancholy Whores."
"Living to Tell the Tale-- a title that conjures memories of Moby Dick, as well as this Nobel laureate's own nonfiction book, The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor-- is the first volume of a planned autobiographical trilogy. But its most powerful sections read like one of his mesmerizing novels, transporting the reader to a Latin America haunted by the ghosts of history and shaped by the exigencies of its daunting geography, by its heat and jungles and febrile light. The book provides a memorable portrait of a young writer's apprenticeship as the one William Styron gave us in Sophie's Choice, even as it illuminates the alchemy Mr. García Márquez acquired from masters like Faulkner and Joyce and Borges and later used to transform family stories and firsthand experiences into fecund myths of his own."
Atlanta, Georgia : The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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Library, University of Illinois
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Freeman's review on Living to Tell the Tale: "The verdict: A maestro at work. Full of rich researched anecdotes from the writer's childhood in a small Colombian village, the book has all the weight and exquisite storytelling prowess of Márquez's two fiction masterpieces, Love in the Time of Cholera and One Hundred Years of Solitude."
"Bosnian film director Emir Kusturica joined Gabriel García Márquez on Monday at the opening of a workshop the famed Colombian writer is giving at Cuba's International School of Cinema and Television."
"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."
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."