Gabriel Garcia Marquez

PHOTOS: Carlos Fuentes Dies, Friends And Admirers React

Posted 05.15.2012

Read More: Mexican Author, Video, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Carlos Fuentes Dies, Latin American Authors, Hispanic Heritage, Carlos Fuentes, Slideexpand, Latino Voices News

Carlos Fuentes died Tuesday at the age of 83 in Mexico City. Alongside other Spanish-speaking authors, like Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Mario Vargas Ll...

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Gabriel Garcia Marquez Death Rumor Circulates On Twitter

The Huffington Post | Cristina Costantini | Posted 05.15.2012

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According to many Twitter users, the famous Colombian writer Gabriel García Márquez died on Monday, May 14th, 2012. But according to Colombian news ...

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Are Novels Better With Large Casts or Small Casts?

Dave Astor | Posted 05.02.2012

Read More: J.K. Rowling, Edith Wharton, Donald Westlake, Barbara Kingsolver, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Novels, Literary Characters, J.R.R. Tolkien, Margaret Atwood, The Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, Charlotte Bronte, Books News

For a book with "Solitude" in its title, it sure has lots of characters! After recently reading One Hundred Years of Solitude, I've been thinking about whether novels are better with large casts or small casts.

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Where Do Writers Get Their Ideas From? An Interview with Celia Blue Johnson

Brian Gresko | Posted 04.30.2012

Read More: Se-Hinton, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Inspiration, JRR Tolkien the Hobbit, Jack Kerouac, Writing, Writing Inspiration, AA Milne, Writing Advice, Mrs. Dalloway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Books News

In short, pithy essays, Celia Blue Johnson recounts how the simplest moments -- a trip, an odd job -- inspired some of the most beloved classics of Western literature. I talked with her to hear more about these fascinating accounts.

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Happy Birthday Gabriel Garcia Marquez!

The Huffington Post | Laura Steiner | Posted 03.07.2012

Read More: Contemporary Literature, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude, Magical Realism, Latin American Authors, Colombia, Hispanic Heritage, Slidepollajax, Latino Voices News

Gerald Martin's task of chronicling Nobel laureate Gabriel García Márquez’s life wasn't easy. Despite being a public figure, the most re...

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Nabokov, Garcia Marquez "Justify Paedophilia" Says Russian Church

AP | By MANSUR MIROVALEV | Posted 11.30.2011

Read More: Religion, Banned Books Week, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita, Book Banning, Russian Orthodox Church, Russian Orthodox, Books News

MOSCOW -- A senior Russian Orthodox official claimed Wednesday that novels by Vladimir Nabokov and Gabriel Garcia Marquez justify pedophilia and said ...

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Q&A With Nicole Krauss, Author of Great House and The History of Love

Elana Estrin | Posted 11.15.2011

Read More: Edgar Allan Poe, Mishkenot Sha?Ananim, Kenwood House, Sigmund Freud, Alma Singer, Bruno Schulz, Pinochet, The Moomintroll Series, Georges Perec, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Fleur Cowles, Man Walks Into a Room, Evelyn Waugh, John Fowles, Haim Hazaz, Isaac Bashevis Singer, National Book Award, Yehuda Amichai, Rembrandt, Franz Kafka, Jerusalem Cultural Fellowship, Saul Bellow, Peter Handke, Jerusalem, John Foster Dulles, Susan Sontag, Amos Oz, Zbigniew Herbert, Chile, Tove Jansson, Francis Bacon, Courtauld Institute in London, Nicole Krauss, The Last Jew, Great House, Hampstead Heath, The History of Love, Yoel Hoffmann, Samuel Beckett, Yoram Kaniuk, David Grossman, Israel, Harry Ransom Center, Thomas Bernhard, Books We Love, Books News

While studying art history in graduate school, novelist Nicole Krauss spent hours in the library researching Rembrandt, only to find that she preferred imagining the details of his life instead.

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A Catalog Of Dirty Words Used In "The New Yorker"

The Awl | Elon Green @ 1:30 Pm | Posted 07.31.2011

Read More: William Shawn, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Saul Bellow, The New Yorker, Junot Diaz, New Yorker Stories, Dirty Words, Ian Frazier, Harold Brodkey, Books News

Famous story, here recounted by The Daily News: Harold Brodkey used to tell the tale of how legendary New Yorker magazine editor William Shawn hand...

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10 Best Short Stories Of All Time

flavorwire.com | Posted 07.27.2011

Read More: Short Stories, J.D. Salinger, Nine Stories, Best Short Stories, The Dead, A Good Man Is Hard to Find, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Raymond Carver, James Joyce, Flannery O'Connor, Books News

As a fitting finale to National Short Story Month, we asked the talented crew over at One Story to name their ten favorite epigrammatic tales. Tanya R...

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HuffPost Readers' Picks: Best First Sentences In Books

Posted 07.26.2011

Read More: J.K. Rowling, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Stephen King, Hunter S. Thompson, First Sentences, Samuel Beckett, Ray Bradbury, J.R.R. Tolkien, Gone With the Wind, Leo Tolstoy, A Tale of Two Cities, Pride and Prejudice, Books News

"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times..." "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortun...

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How Much Did Publisher Pay To Print First Authorized Marquez Novel In China?

guardian.co.uk | Alison Flood | Posted 06.29.2011

Read More: Chinese Publishing, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Marquez Novel China, One Hundred Years of Solitude, Marquez Novel, Thinkingdom House, One Hundred Years of Solitude in Chinese, Books News

A Chinese publisher is set to bring out the first ever authorised edition of Gabriel Garcia Marquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude in Chinese, after ...

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Gabriel Garcia Marquez Dramatization: Should You See It?

washingtonpost.com | Celia Wren | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Carlos Jose Reyes, Jorge Ali Triana, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Gabriel Garcia Marquez Novella, La Candida Erendira, GALA Hispanic Theatre, Marquez Novella Adaptation, Books News

Oranges ripen with diamonds at their centers. Glass turns blue when touched by a lovesick youth. In the wake of a mistreated girl, a metal-robed angel...

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Literary Fisticuffs! Flying Fists And Zinging Words: Nobody Fights Like An Angry Writer (PHOTOS)

The Huffington Post | Zoe Triska | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Authors, Sartre, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Ernest Hemingway, Wallace Stevens, Camus, Slidepollajax, J.R.R. Tolkien, Gore Vidal, c.s. Lewis, Norman Mailer, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Rimbaud, Verlaine, Books News

Stereotypically, artists are stormy, temperamental, and moody. These literary figures feed the stereotype with their classic feuds. We asked readers...

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What If "A Moveable Feast" Had Been Titled "A Moveable Snack?"

The Huffington Post | Zoe Triska | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Ernest Hemingway, Less Ambitious Books, Twitter, Hunter S. Thompson, George Orwell, Slidepollajax, #Lessambitiousbooks, Leo Tolstoy, Books News

The Twitter hashtag, #lessambitiousbooks, is making another trending appearance this week. These are our current favorites. Got a better one? Let u...

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HuffPost Video Exclusive: R.E.M.'s "Überlin," Plus Conversations with David Lowery and Cowboy Junkies' Michael Timmins

Mike Ragogna | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Roxy Music, Michael Timmins, Ryan Adams, Rem, Alan Anton, Live Nation, Bob Hillman, The Beatles, David Lowery, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, John Morand, Bowling for Colmbine, Adult Swim, Peter Buck, Cheap Trick, Alan Weatherhead, Uso Tour, The Velvet Underground, Cowboy Junkies, Jacknife Lee, Robin Zander, Johnny Hickman, Bryan Ferry, Mike Mills, Iggy Pop, Playboy, Cracker, Sal Maida, Vic Chesnutt, Nycd, Camper Van Beethoven, Milk ?N? Cookies, Natalie Merchant, Sparklehorse, Michael Moore, Cartoon Network, Apocalypse Now, Margo Timmins, Michael Stipe, Peter Timmins, Entertainment News

The following video, "Überlin," is R.E.M.'s latest offering, premiering exclusively on HuffPost.

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Reading In Public

The Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Reading in Public, Born to Run, Plato, Carson McCullers, Flaubert, Christopher Mcdougall, Dorian Gray, Slidepollajax, Love in the Time of Cholera, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Madame Bovary, Spotted Reading Publicly, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, Flannery O'Connor, Books News

It's been too long since we've shared with you the pulse of the people. It's a little segment we like to call Reading In Public! Here's how it works:...

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Our Vargas Llosa who art in Nobel...

Yoani Sanchez | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Fresa Y Chocolate, Nobel Prize in Literature, Strawberry and Chocolate, Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo, Cuban Revolution, Nobel Prize, Peru, Vargas Llosa, Peru Presidential Campaign, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Garcia Marquez, Mario Vargas Llosa, Cuba, Alejo Carpentier, Jose Saramago, Senal Paz, World News

Today's guest post is from Cuban writer, photographer and blogger, Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo. Our Vargas Llosa who art in Nobel... by Orlando Luis Pard...

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WATCH Bill Maher: Nobel Committee Must Rename The Prize

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Pablo Neruda, Octavio Paz, South America, Jorge Luis Borges, Nobel Prize, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Nobel Prize in Literature, Peru, Mario Vargas Llosa, Comedy News

In the wake of Peruvian author Mario Vargas Llosa's Nobel Prize in literature, "Real Time"'s Bill Maher has a new rule: The prize committee must chang...

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What If Everyone On Twitter Read The Same Book?

Jeff Howe | Posted 12.12.2011

Read More: Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Neil Gaiman, Twitter, One Book One City, Robert Putnam, Books, Ray Bradbury, Bowling Alone, Nancy Pearl, Social Capital, One Book One Twitter, Books News

What if everyone in the world read the same book? We have the ideal technology at our fingertips--Twitter. All we need now is the book.

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5 Literary Hook-Ups I'd Like to See

Caroline Hagood | Posted 05.25.2011

Which writers would you like to see get it on?

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Huffington Post Readers' Picks: 13 Great Overlooked Books By Famous Authors (PHOTOS, POLL)

The Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Slidepollajax, Great Books, Louisa May Alcott, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Tolstoy, John Steinbeck, Overlooked Books, Books, Bestsellers, Books News

Last week, we posted a list of 12 great books by famous authors that are often overlooked by popular culture, and we were happy to see that HuffPost r...

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The Colombian Elections: Who Will Be the Next President of Macondo?

Michael Fairbanks | Posted 05.25.2011

How many countries in the world could elect as its next president someone who dropped his pants and mooned a disrespectful audience of students?

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Gabriel Garcia Marquez's Translator Speaks Up For Translations

AP | HILLEL ITALIE | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Don Quixote, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Ghost Writers, Translators, Why Translation Matters, Writing, Books, Translations, Edith Grossman, Books News

NEW YORK — If you're a fan of Gabriel Garcia Marquez or have purchased the latest edition of "Don Quixote," you might know the name Edith Grossm...

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Mother and Child's Rodrigo Garcia on the Primal Bond: An Interview

Erica Abeel | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Latino Culture and Family Bonds, Samuel Jackson, Women's Stories, Post-Racist Society, "Mother and Child, Kerry Washington, Annette Bening, Entertainmentnews, Naomi Watts, Interview, " Rodrigo Garcia, Adoption, Entertainment News

Unlike many indie filmmakers, Rodrigo Garcia is unafraid to roll out gut-wrenching situations from a telenovela, though his inner gyroscope keeps him from going over the top.

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Tomas Eloy Martinez Dead: Argentinian Author Dies At 75

The Washington Post | Emma Brown | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Eva Peron, Tomas Eloy Martinez, Books, Tomas Eloy Martinez Dead, Santa Evita, Argentina, Juan Domingo Peron, The Peron Novel, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Magical Realism, Peron, Books News

Tomás Eloy Martínez, 75, an Argentine journalist and novelist who wrote two international bestsellers about former Argentine president Juan Domingo ...

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