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Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Gabriel José de la Concordia García Márquez was a Colombian novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter and journalist.

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Essays & Memoir | Issue 41 padlock

Dreams for Hire

Gabriel García Márquez

‘The wave had erupted with such force that it obliterated the glass lobby.‘ Translated from the Spanish by Nick Caistor.

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Essays & Memoir | Issue 31 padlock

The Future of Colombia

Gabriel García Márquez

‘With the hindsight of six years, it is clear that Colombia missed the opportunity to spare itself many of the horrors now afflicting it.’

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Essays & Memoir | Issue 31 padlock

Julio Cortázar, 1914-84

Gabriel García Márquez

‘I felt he was the most impressive person I've known.’

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Essays & Memoir | Issue 31 padlock

Mystery without End

Gabriel García Márquez

‘In a city where everyone knows everyone else and where there are secret agents everywhere - from the military, the police and the security forces - it's hard to believe that he was not found out.’

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Essays & Memoir | Issue 31 padlock

Watching the Rain in Galicia

Gabriel García Márquez

‘Only then did I understand where my grandmother had got that credulity which allowed her to live in a supernatural world in which everything was possible and where rational explanations were totally lacking in validity.’

Essays & Memoir | Issue 9
Essays & Memoir | Issue 9

The Solitude of Latin America

Gabriel García Márquez

Gabriel García Márquez’s 1982 Nobel Prize speech, translated by Marina Castañeda.

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