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‘He was mocking his captors’: a poet’s confession and the Cuban revolution

A new documentary charts the fall from grace of Heberto Padilla, a disillusioned former supporter of Castro, who was forced to make a public ‘self-criticism’

The Guardian - US

Gabriel García Márquez’s last novel stands in tribute to his defiance of dementia

The late Colombian author didn’t want his final book published, but his sons’ decision to do so is inspiring to writers like me

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Gabriel García Márquez’s lost novel to be published with sons’ blessings 10 years after author’s death

Legendary author, who struggled with dementia late in his life, decided in his final days that ‘Until August’ should not be released upon his death

The Independent UK

Edith Grossman obituary

Exceptional translator of novels by Gabriel García Márquez and Mario Vargas Llosa as well as other Hispanic authors

The Guardian - UK

44 Years Ago, a Legendary Writer Made a Disturbingly Prophetic Sci-Fi Movie That Still Resonates Today

Released in 1979 and co-written by Gabriel García Márquez, 'The Year of the Plague' is a powerful sci-fi thriller that's only gotten more important with age.

Inverse

Barcelona community resource named world’s best new public library

Gabriel García Márquez library in working-class district specialises in Latin American literature

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Milan Kundera obituary

Influential Czech-born author of the bestselling novel The Unbearable Lightness of Being

The Guardian - UK

An unpublished novel by Gabriel García Márquez is set for release next year

Arriving 10 years after the author's death, the roughly 150-page novel will contain five sections centered around a character named Ana Magdalena Bach.

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Unseen Gabriel García Márquez novel to be published next year

Colombian author’s En Agosto Now Vemos (We’ll See Each Other in August) had been just a rumour but now fans will get to read it

The Guardian - US

Márquez overtakes Cervantes as most translated Spanish-language writer

Author of One Hundred Years of Solitude tops list of those most translated into 10 languages this century ahead of Don Quixote creator

The Guardian - UK

Raymond & Ray: Burying your abusive dad

Filmmaker Rodrigo García spoke to Salon about his Apple TV+ film, men expressing pain and reconciling filial doubt

Salon

How crime fiction went global, embracing themes from decolonisation to climate change

Once seen as the purview of British and American writers, crime fiction is very much a global phenomenon. Fictional investigators such as Lisbeth Salander, Kurt Wallander and Jules Maigret are now perhaps as well known as Hercule Poirot, Sam Spade and Philip Marlowe.

The Conversation

You’ve got style: Brilliant books on creative writing

From Italo Calvino to Dorothea Brande, Emma Cummins reflects on the books that inspire her as a writer

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Gustavo Petro: first leftist president faces tough challenge in Colombia

Despite the election euphoria, Petro has a thin mandate and is viewed with suspicion by many

The Independent UK

Letters sent to García Márquez to be shown in Mexico City

While reviewing the photo archives left by Nobel Prize-winning Colombian author Gabriel García Márquez, one of his granddaughters came across a mysterious plastic box with the word “grandchildren” written on its label

The Guardian - UK

Imaginary regions: travel book ‘journeys’ to fictional literary locations

Spanish anthology explores places created by authors such as Gabriel García Márquez and Chinua Achebe

Al Jazeera

Afghan students run underground book club to keep dreams alive

A group of students runs the club in Kabul to learn, read and write their own stories amid expanding Taliban curbs.

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Barcelona honours Gabriel García Márquez with new library

The Colombian Nobel laureate, who lived in the city from 1967-75, is to have a €12m building specialising in Latin American literature named after him

The Guardian - US

Not just ‘cocaine and war’: Colombian pride at Oscar-winning Encanto’s positive portrayal

Animated film, influenced heavily by magical realism, breaks frequent representation as country beset by drugs and violence

The Independent UK

Colombian author García Márquez had secret Mexican daughter

For decades renowned Colombian author Gabriel García Márquez kept the public from knowing about an intimate aspect of his life: He had a daughter with a Mexican writer, with whom he had an extramarital affair in the early 1990s

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