"En ocasión del XXVII festival Internacional del Nuevo Cine Latinoamericano, y con la presencia del Premio Nobel de Literatura Gabriel García Márquez, el viernes 9 de diciembre quedó abierta en la Galería Latinoamericana de la Casa de las Américas la exposición Cien años de soledad al aguafuerte..."
United States : University of Miami, Latin American Politics & Society
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Library, University of Illinois
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45(1) : pp. 87-118
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Green writes about the military dictatorship in Brazil, and the various reactions throughout the United States. With a brief mention of García Márquez, Green depicts "an international group of prestigious figures known for their commitment to progressive causes."
"Mike Newell is filming Love in the Time of Cholera in South America's most notorious country, and he is in good company. Maya Jaggi reports on Colombia's film-industry boom."
Washington : Center for Strategic and International Studies Georgetown University
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Library, University of Illinois
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25(3) : 123-134
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This article discusses many different things about Colombia; in the section titled "A Nation in Spite of Itself" the author states, "A common Colombian culture is unmistakable. With great self-confidence, Colombians claim to speak better Spanish than the Spanish. Regional differences certainly exist. Folklore, song, and dance styles differ by region but are honored widely. The screechy rhythms of vallenato country music from the northeast (think bluegrass), now lead the national charts. Novelist and Nobel Prize winner Gabriel García Márquez and world-renowned painter and sculptor Fernando Botero are national unifiers. Recent Grammy winner Shakira is a great source of national pride." The author also references two of Márquez's works, "El general en su laberinto" and "News of a Kidnapping" in his notes.
Denmark : Universidad de Aarhus, Centro de Estudios Latinoamericanos
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Library, University of Illinois
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11 : pp. 1-15
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Discusses the social, political and economic state of Columbia. Focuses on the fluctuations within the nation as well as cultural influences. Mentions historical figures, writers, and political figures.
"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."
"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.'"
"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)."