US talk show queen Oprah to end show in 2011 Nov 21, 2009
Through her now-defunct televised book club she popularized works including "Love in the Time of Cholera" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Cormac McCarthy's "The Road.". Her stamp of approval on the latter was considered so important she managed to convince the famously-reclusive McCarthy to appear on her show for his first ever television interview. (Yahoo! Asia News)
Mexico spied on top author Oct 23, 2009
MEXICO'S intelligence service spied on the writer Gabriel Garcia Marquez for decades and considered him a Cuban agent, it has emerged. The defunct DFS agency bugged the Nobel laureate's phone and monitored his movements from 1967 after he moved to Mexico with his family. (Sydney Morning Herald -- World)
Writers on a New England Stage presents Isabel Allende Oct 21, 2009
" About the author: Isabel Allende Born in Peru and raised in Chile, Isabel Allende is the author of nine novels, including Ins of My Soul, Daughter of Fortune, and Portrait in Sepia, all of which were New York Times bestsellers. She has also written a collection of stories, four memoirs, and a trilogy of children's novels. Allende left her native Chile for Venezuela after the overthrow and assassination in 1973 of her uncle, Salvador Allende, president of Chile. In her exile, she emerged as a... (Seacoast New Hampshire)
* World News Quick Take Oct 21, 2009
Police opened a file on Nobel Prize winner Gabriel Garcia Marquez in 1982 as pro-Cuban and pro-Soviet and a propaganda agent of Cuba, according to files published by Mexican daily El Universal on Monday. The newspaper reported that the author of One Hundred Years of Solitude among many other works had been spied on by Mexico from the mid-1960s to at least the 1980s. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- Sports)
CHALK TALK:Annalisa Hillis-Ravin, Pembroke Community Middle School Oct 17, 2009
100 Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. It is a wonderful book with such amazing characters I have read it a few times and still find new information I didn t realize before. (Pembroke Mariner, MA)
Romanian-born writer wins Nobel for literature Oct 9, 2009
No South American writer has won since Gabriel Garcia Marquez in 1982. Type Size. (AZCentral -- News)
Winners of Nobel Prize in literature since 1960 Oct 8, 2009
1982: Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Colombia. 1981: Elias Canetti, Bulgarian-born Briton. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Science)
Authors reveal influential books Sep 26, 2009
Gabriel Garcia Marquez was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1982 ... Gabriel Garcia Marquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude was the only book to be picked by more than one writer. (BBC News -- Entertainment)
- Life Out Here: Preaching to my students? (1) Sep 16, 2009
We also discussed our readings of the classic novella Chronicle of a Death Foretold by living legend Gabriel Garcia Marquez and pondered a short story about a couple of fifth-grade weirdos by Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Michael Chabon. To top off the day, we talked about some composition matters and about the letters to the editor the students are required to write. (El Centro Imperial Valley Press, CA)
Travelin down the road like a rollin stone Sep 5, 2009
What can you say about a people who produced Gabriel Garcia Marquez ... Ah yes, Gabriel Garcia Marquez. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Opinion)
Spooks spill blood in the Hindu Kush Sep 4, 2009
Like in a Gabriel Garcia Marquez novel, the murder of Dr Abdullah Laghmani, the deputy head of the Afghan National Directorate of Security, could have been foretold. But the sheer brutality of his murder by a suicide bomber in front of a mosque in the town of Mehtarlam in eastern Afghanistan on Wednesday afternoon in the holy month of Ramadan speaks of a visceral hostility not easily fathomable. (Asia Times Online)
* Hardcover: China: Survivors stories from China Aug 30, 2009
Their touching reunion many years later, after the woman is married, would not be out of place in a Gabriel Garcia Marquez novel. on Facebook. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- Business)
August solemnity Aug 15, 2009
Cathy Mathews's friend was murdered 20 years ago this month. The consequences will never be erased. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Australia)
Cinema's tasty treats Aug 7, 2009
Makes you want to: Read the collected works of Gabriel Garcia Marquez for another taste of magical realism. "Eat Drink Man Woman" (1994) -- Master chef Chu, a long-time widower, struggles with his relationship with his three grown daughters. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
'New normal' willbe a painful place Jul 22, 2009
Watching this number climb over the past few years is reminiscent of the 1981 Gabriel Garcia Marquez short story, Chronicle of a Death Foretold, although in this case the title would be "Chronicle of the Death of an Economy Foretold". After being stable at around 1. (Asia Times Online)
Literary classics, author says, are best beach books Jul 7, 2009
A. "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. It's a very sexy book almost start to finish. (Honolulu Advertiser)
* [HARDCOVER: US] To America! But only for the men Jun 21, 2009
In the case of Luis Alberto Urreas 2004 novel The Hummingbirds Daughter, it was enough for the book to be a long family epic written by a Latino (Urrea is Mexican American) for reviewers to cry Gabriel Garcia Marquez. May differences in style and substance be damned. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
LITERARY GUIDE Jun 1, 2009
Discusses "Gabriel Garcia Marquez: A Life." 6 p.m. $12. Mechanics' Institute Library, 57 Post St., San Francisco. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Rafael Escalona, 81, composer, performer of vallenato classics May 16, 2009
Born in the Caribbean state of Cesar, the cradle of vallenato music, Mr. Escalona composed his first song at 15 and went on to pen staples such as "La Casa en el Aire" and "El Manantial." His name and work were immortalized in the novel "One Hundred years of Solitude," by Nobel laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Mr. Escalona helped found the Festival de la Leyanda Vallenata, the definitive annual vallenato music gathering, and lived to see vallenato catch on across Latin America and reach a global... (Boston Globe)
Too Many Limits, Not Enough Drama May 16, 2009
But it doesnt rise to the level of even a middling Gabriel Garcia Marquez short story. Much is lost in translationpun intended. (Slate)
Denial of US visas on ideological grounds protested Mar 19, 2009
The letter recalled that during the Cold War, Colombian writer Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Chilean poet Pablo Neruda and Italian playwright Dario Fo were barred from entering the United States. The ACLU has published a report calling for a fundamental review of the security measures contained in the Patriot Act. (India Times)
Every Shareholder Should Read This Now Mar 9, 2009
Here's something else you should readLove in the Time of Cholera, by Gabriel Garcia Marquez -- and not just because the guy's a Nobel Prize winner, but because he makes some pretty brilliant observations. For instance, "wisdom comes to us when it can no longer do any good.". (MSNBC -- Business)
Today in History - March 6 Mar 7, 2009
Author Gabriel Garcia Marquez is 82. Orchestra conductor Lorin Maazel is 79. (Ghana Web, Ghana)
Loving My Time in Cartagena Mar 4, 2009
Though it is overtly Caribbean, what draws people to this port city is its colonial Spanish soul, best captured perhaps in the novels of Gabriel Garcia Marquez, its most famous resident. If you had any illusions that Garcia Marquez's cilantro-spun stories were fiction, a few days in Cartagena will change your mind. (Time.com)
Cartagena: The real risk is not wanting to leave Mar 1, 2009
Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Nobel Prize-winning novelist and part-time Cartagena resident, evokes this dreamy quality of the city in his magic realism style of writing ... But around the city of Cartagena, and really for much of the nation of Colombia, the dreamy tales of Gabriel Garcia Marquez are becoming daily life. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Travel)
Lust in the dust jackets Feb 14, 2009
Between them, Nabokov's glorious Spring in Fialta and Alice Munro's The Bear Came over the Mountain manage to say almost everything about love, including the relatively unexplored map of geriatric love that Gabriel Garcia Marquez does with sublime insight in Love in the Time of Cholera. Nor have men responded as warmly as women to the tart mind of Jane Austen. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
