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Efforts to film Nobel Prize-winning author Gabriel Garcia Marquez's latest novel are meeting resistance in Mexico, where an anti-prostitution group is seeking to block production, charging the movie will promote child prostitution.
Literary and cultural critic John Leonard, an early champion of Toni Morrison, Gabriel Garcia Marquez and many other authors, and so consumed and informed by books that Kurt Vonnegut once praised him as "the smartest man who ever lived," has died at age 69, his stepdaughter said Thursday.
An Iranian government decision to forbid the second printing of a Persian translation of Colombian writer Gabriel Garcia Marquez has spurred interest in the book, booksellers said Saturday.
Much of the great joy of reading an author like Gabriel Garcia Marquez is the fact that you're reading him — that you're allowing yourself to become engrossed in his florid phrasing and vivid descriptions, that he's taking you to a fully realized place, and that you're succumbing, gladly.
Benjamin Bratt, one of the stars of "Love in the Time of Cholera," says filming a work by Gabriel Garcia Marquez was a challenge of a lifetime.
Ban on Nobel laureate's book spurs interest in Iran - CNN.comIranian government decision to forbid the second printing of a Persian translation of Colombian writer Gabriel Garcia Marquez's novel has spurred interest in the book, booksellers said Saturday.
Iranian publisher's ruse fails to protect raunchy García Márquez title from censorsIran's straight-laced censors are not known for their tolerance of sexually risque literature, so a book called A Memory of My Melancholy Whores was never likely to meet with their approval.
Cartagena revels in love, sans cholera - The Colombian port, where Garcia Marquez keeps a home and which inspired his novel, has been buoyed by a wave of tourism. By Patrick J.
Two giants of literature, one black eye and 30 years of silenceIt is possibly the most famous literary feud of modern times: Gabriel García Márquez, the Nobel prize-winning author, and Mario Vargas Llosa, his fellow giant of Latin American literature, have refused to talk to each other for three decades.
Yet another premature baby, Yair Klein, García Márquez [video]Another premature baby was born in Colombia. Caracol Televisión featured an interview with Yair Klein, an Israeli mercenary who trained Colombian paramilitaries and drug-traffickers in late 80s. Gabriel García Márquez's 80th birthday
The Fidel I think I know : Gabriel Garcia MarquezHe's a man of ironclad discipline, inexhaustible patience, colossal ideas and insatiable illusions
Gabriel Garcia Marquez retiresOne of the world's greatest writers puts down his pen.
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