"Features Augusto Monterroso, a Latin American author. Countries around the world where Monterroso has spent his life; Latin American writers who became Monterroso's friends, including Gabriel García Márquez; Commendation and criticisms on the personal and professional attitudes of Monterroso; Political influences of Monterroso"
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 article describes the personal library of a librarian from Georgia. The author mentioned the picture books 'The Butterflies Come,' and 'Juanita,' by Leo Politi and the satirical work 'Cautionary Verses,' by Hilaire Belloc as favorite books from a childhood collection. Contemporary literary fiction by Isabel Allende and Gabriel García Márquez are included in the library. Books about writing and the creative process noted by the author include those by Anne Lamott and Julia Cameron
"If fans of Nobel Laureate Gabriel García Márquez - better known as Gabo - have been wondering why they didn't hear much of him during 2005, the reason is simple: he had a one-year writer's block."
"La subasta de las primeras pruebas de 'Cien años de soledad' que se celebró el viernes en Barcelona, quedó desierta. Nadie pujó por el precio de salida que ascendía a medio millón de dólares. Los más de sesenta compradores potenciales que llenaban la sala de la Casa Batlló de la capital catalana se quedaron mudos al comienzo de la subasta. Universidades estadounidenses, agentes literarios, institucioines españolas y francesas...nadie quiso llevarse la obra maestra de Gabriel García Márquez a casa."
"La subasta de las primeras pruebas de 'Cien años de soledad' que se celebró el viernes en Barcelona, quedó desierta. Nadie pujó por el precio de salida que ascendía a medio millón de dólares. Los más de sesenta compradores potenciales que llenaban la sala de la Casa Batlló de la capital catalana se quedaron mudos al comienzo de la subasta. Universidades estadounidenses, agentes literarios, institucioines españolas y francesas...nadie quiso llevarse la obra maestra de Gabriel García Márquez a casa."
Ryan Long analyzes various aspects of Latin American social and political culture as he "reviews several books. "Letters to a Young Novelist," by Mario Vargas Llosa; "A Story Teller: Mario Vargas Llosa Between Civilization and Barbarism," by Braulio Muñoz; "Latin American Novels of the Conquest: Reinventing the New World," by Kmberle S. Lopez; "No Apocalypse, No Integration: Modernism and Postmodernism in Latin America," by Martín Hopenhayn."
Viewed on 29 January, 2008. "Cervantes no es el autor en lengua castellana más solicitado por los internautas. Los latinoamericanos Pablo Neruda y Gabriel García Márquez superan al 'principe de las letras,' según la 'Enciclopedia del español en el mundo,' el anuario del Instituto Cervantes que se acaba de publicar."