Viewed on 29 January, 2008. || "Sotomayor shares his memories with journalist Frank del Olmo who worked together on a Times series on Latinos in Southern California that won the 1984 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service." "Frank's friend of many years, author Gabriel García Márquez, a former reporter, wrote that he wished he 'hadn't read the news of Thursday, February 19: Frank del Olmo was dead and no disclaimer or correction was possible. Those of us who are born journalists discover early in our lives, and often against our will, that our craft is not just a calling, a fate, a need or a job. It's something we can't avoid: It is a vice among friends."
John S. Christie mentions Gabriel García Márquez in his discussion of magical realism and the Latin American Boom in literature, which he states was "brought on by the unparalleled success of Gabriel García Márquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude."
In reviewing Carlos Fuentes's book "The Eagle's Throne" the author states:
"Not long ago, a polemic surrounding Carlos Fuentes's legacy erupted in Mexico when a prominent playwright, Emilio Carballido, stated that the members of the so-called generación del boom, the movement that included Julio Cortázar, Gabriel García Márquez, and Mario Vargas Llosa, Fuentes was the most spoiled, the one whose talents were wasted in gallantries."
He also notes, "And when asked if he would ever win the Nobel Prize for Literature, Fuentes responded that he already had, since the award in 1982 to García Márquez was really in honor of their whole generation.
United States : Asociacion de Literatura Femenina Hispanica
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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28(2) : pp. 137-157
Notes:
Analyzes and reviews "El aire tan dulce", by Elvira Orphée. Mentions that her work is similar to the Magical Realism of Gabriel García Márquez, but is in fact existentialist.
Kiernan writes about the Inter-American Commission of Women and their attempts to increase the awareness of women around the world with information such as domestic violence issues. Kiernan also writes about certain figures who talk about women, and mentions García Márquez' literature.
Kiernan says, "One October in Paraty, as it rained twenty-three days out of thirty-one, I sat and read One Hundred Years of Solitude, never for a moment doubting the truth of García Márquez's wonderful story."
Discusses, in a letter, the articles that are presented in the magazine Américas. The letter states that "Caleb Bach describes how Edith Grossman practices the translators' art with authors from Cervantes to García Márquez," among other issues in the magazine.
Gómez reviews of Por la libre: Obra periodística, v.4, 1974-1995, disclosing that Gabriel García Márquez focuses completely on the most important theme of that time: national and international politics during the 1970s, although the book includes work from the 80s and 90s. Most articles in Por la Libre, are dedicated to leftist political activity during these years in Colombia, Latin America, Europe, and Africa. All of Gabriel García Márquez's articles are written with his usual documentary objectivity in terms of the facts, although his comments and point of view correspond to his personal appreciation. Por la Libre can only have the validity that each of its articles, chronicles, surveys, and interiews had in the past, especially as a compilation. Few like Gabriel García Márquez could offer the mastery that has made him famous world wide, whether it is with his journalistic work or his works of fiction.
"El escritor colombiano y premio Nobel de literatura 1982, Gabriel García Márquez, negó este lunes estar a favor de la legalización y del consumo de drogas, y fustigó a la prensa por haberlo malinterpretado."
Viewed on 29 January, 2008. "Madrid, 6 de marzo. Gabriel García Márquez y Miguel de Cervantes Saacedra comparten a partir de hoy, además de la inmortalidad como clásicos de la literatura universal, una nueva condición: son los únicos escritores que han recibido como homenaje en España la lectura de viva voz e ininterrumpida de su obra cumbre."