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  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Its main demand so far, in exchange for the younger Gaviria's release, is that Garcia Marquez take over the presidency from Samper, who faces widespread calls for his resignation because of charges that his 1994 election campaign was partly financed by drug traffickers.
Garcia Marquez rejected the demand out of hand, saying he was sure he would make ``the worst president'' in Colombia's history.
Alberto Villamizar, a friend of Garcia Marquez, is Colombia's so-called anti-kidnapping czar, the government official in charge of tracking down and winning the release of Juan Carlos Gaviria.
www.levity.com /corduroy/marquez.htm   (0 words)

  
  GradeSaver: ClassicNote: Biography of Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Gabriel Jose Garcia Marquez was born on March 6, 1928 to Luisa Santiaga Marquez Iguaran and Gabriel Eligio Garcia in Aracataca, Colombia.
Luisa's parents did not approve of her marriage to Gabriel and Marquez, the oldest of twelve children, was sent to live with his maternal grandparents.
Marquez's literary career was sparked, oddly enough, by the long period of political violence and repression known in Colombia as la violencia.
www.gradesaver.com /classicnotes/authors/about_gabriel_marquez.html   (1251 words)

  
 Gabriel Garcia Marquez's Final Farewell
During the summer of 1999 Gabriel Garcia Marquez, winner of the 1982 Nobel Prize for Literature and author of such classics as One Hundred Years of Solitude, was treated for lymphatic cancer.
The poem was titled "La Marioneta" or "The Puppet," and it was reportedly a farewell poem that Garcia Marquez had written and sent out to his closest friends on account of his worsening condition.
For instance, one friend of Garcia Marquez, the Indian filmmaker Mrinal Sen, told the Hindustan Times that upon reading the poem he was flooded with memories from his 20 years of acquaintance with the author.
www.museumofhoaxes.com /marquez.html   (893 words)

  
 Famous Hispanic & Spanish Writers: Gabriel García Márquez
Garcia Marquez was raised by his grandparents, who would often tell him wonderous stories, fables and fairy tales.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez was a liberal thinker whose left-wing politics angered many conservative politicians and heads of state, including Colombian dictator Laureano Gomez and his successor, General Gustavo Rojas Pinilla.
It was actually while living in exile in Mexico that Garcia Marquez began to write his crowning achievement and masterpiece, One Hundred Years of Solitude, the saga of the Buendia family and its generations in the fictional town of Macondo.
www.donquijote.org /culture/spain/writers   (283 words)

  
 SULAIR: Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Gabriel Garcia Marquez was born in 1928 in Aracataca, Colombia.
"To Gabriel Garcia Marquez: The Autumn of the Patriarch"
Garcia Marquez recounts the adventures he took while making the secret film, even risking his life on several occasions, to document Chile of the 1980s.
www-sul.stanford.edu /depts/hasrg/german/exhibit/GDRposters/marquez.html   (688 words)

  
 growabrain: Books - Gabriel Garcia Marquez Archives
ARACATACA, Colombia — Life did not imitate art when this town where Gabriel Garcia Marquez was born and first heard the ghost stories that would inform the "magical realism" of his novels, rejected a proposal to change its name to honor him.
On the third day of rain they had killed so many crabs inside the house that Pelayo had to cross his drenched courtyard and throw them into the sea, because the newborn child had a temperature all night and they thought it was due to the stench.
Cuban Rescue with Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Ernest Hemingway and Stan Walker, 1994
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 Gabriel Garcia Marquez - Perlentaucher.de, Kultur und Literatur Online
Garcia Marquez, Gabriel: Erinnerung an meine traurigen Huren
Garcia Marquez, Gabriel: Leben, um davon zu erzählen
Gabriel Garcia Mßrquez erzählt vom Leben seiner Eltern, denen er in "Die Liebe in den Zeiten der Cholera" ein Denkmal setzte, von der eigenen Kindheit und Jugend.
www.perlentaucher.de /autoren/3887.html   (399 words)

  
 Gabriel Garcia Marquez and His Approach to History in One
Marquez was born to Luisa Santiago Marquez and Gabriel Eligio Garcia in
Garcia Marquez was left in Aracataca to be brought up by his
Garcia Marquez's account of the banana workers massacre is drawn
www.loyno.edu /history/journal/1994-5/Estorino.htm   (3185 words)

  
 Amazon.com: One Hundred Years of Solitude (Oprah's Book Club): Books: Gabriel Garcia Marquez   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Garcia Marquez has done nothing less than to create in the reader a sense of all that is profound, meaningful, and meaningless in life."
Garcia Marquez tells the story of a family and a town, Macondo.
Marquez manages to create a whole new world in his novel, one that will live on and stand the test of time.
www.amazon.com /Hundred-Years-Solitude-Oprahs-Book/dp/0060740450   (2195 words)

  
 Gabriel García Márquez
Later García Marquez returned to the hero of South American independence in EL GENERAL EN SU LABERINTO (1989), which traced Simón Bolívar's final journey down the Magdalena river.
In 1999 the author was hospitalized and diagnosed with lymphatic cancer.
Marquez's story of an old man and a young girl - a classical subject which goes back to the Book of the Kings and king David among others - stirred some controversy in Columbia.
www.kirjasto.sci.fi /marquez.htm   (0 words)

  
 21st Century Lit » MEMORIES OF MY MELANCHOLY WHORES by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
On the eve of his ninetieth birthday a bachelor decides to give himself a wild night of love with a virgin.
In 1955, Garcia Marquez was working for El Espectador, a newspaper in Bogota, when in February of that year eight crew members of the Caldas, a Colombian destroyer, were washed overboard and disappeared.
This book, which originally appeared as a series of newspaper articles, is Garcia Marquez’s account of that sailor’s ordeal.
21stcenturylit.com /08/memories-of-my-melancholy-whores-by-gabriel-garcia-marquez   (0 words)

  
 Garcia Marquez - Criticism
Presence of Faulkner in the Writings of García Márquez (Texas Tech University Graduate Studies, No 22)
From Dante to Garcia Marquez: Studies in Romance Literatures and Linguistics
Painting Literature: Dostoevsky, Kafka, Pirandello, and Garcia Marquez in Living Color.
www.themodernword.com /gabo/gabo_criticism.html   (0 words)

  
 garcia marquez - EVENE
...Jeune, Gabriel Garcia Marquez étudie le droit qu'il délaisse ensuite au profit de la littérature.
Jane Austen, Irvine Welsh, Marcel Proust, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, John Steinbeck, le Marquis de Sade, Virginia Woolf......
Les internautes intéressés par [garcia marquez] ont continué avec :
www.evene.fr /tout/garcia-marquez   (540 words)

  
 Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Magical Realism   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Marquez uses magical realism to blend reality and fantasy so that the distinction between the two erases.
An example of this technique comes from the story "A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings" where an angel falls to the Earth because of a violent rainstorm.
"A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings" demonstrates Marquez's ability to tell a fairy tale or folk tale in a realistic manner while incorporating the magic of the angel.
mockingbird.creighton.edu /NCW/marquez.htm   (544 words)

  
 Of love and other demons by Gabriel Garcia Marquez | LibraryThing
In fact, Sierva Maria has shown no signs of being infected by rabies or by demons; she is simply being punished for being different.
Nobel Prize winner Garcia Marquez writes with his usual inventiveness, but over the years his prose style has crystallized and condensed.
The result is a tale whose sharp social retort is made all the louder by the luminous, uncluttered telling.
www.librarything.com /work/9971   (376 words)

  
 Gabriel Garcia Marquez - Littérature Sud Américaine
Il est le fils d'un télégraphiste, Gabriel Eligio Garcia, et d'une jeune fille de la bourgeoisie locale, Luisa Santiaga Marquez.
Son grand-père, Nicolas Marquez Iguaran, un ancien colonel, était son compagnon et confident.
Mario Vargas LLosa, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, historia de un deicidio, Barcelone, 1971
www.americas-fr.com /litterature/marquez.html   (662 words)

  
 NPR : Commentary: Meeting Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Katie Davis interviews Garcia Marquez in Bogota, Colombia, October 1983.
That is the way of Colombian Gabriel Garcia Marquez -- novelist, short story writer and now author of a long-awaited memoir, Living to Tell the Tale, which was published in English this week.
Twenty years ago, commentator Katie Davis had a chance to sit down with Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
www.npr.org /templates/story/story.php?storyId=1495140   (602 words)

  
 Resources for Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Macondo is Marquez's fictional town he often uses in his novels.
A well-rounded site is found here, with an in-depth description of Marquez's recent novel, News of a Kidnapping, quotes from other novels, a short biography and works listing, as well as links to reviews, essays, homepages, and more.
For you Marquez fans out there, here is a site where you can order just about any novel or story of his.
collaboratory.nunet.net /goals2000/eddy/Marquez/Resources.html   (304 words)

  
 Gabriel Garcia Marquez Winner of the 1982 Nobel Prize in Literature
Gabriel Garcia Marquez Winner of the 1982 Nobel Prize in Literature
Gabriel Garcia 14 years old at school (submitted by Constanza Diaz)
paintings inspired in the garcia marquez's novels and short stories (submitted by claudia ruiz)
www.almaz.com /nobel/literature/1982a.html   (269 words)

  
 Amazon.com: One Hundred Years of Solitude: Books: Gabriel Garcia Marquez,Gregory Rabassa   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
You may not want to read it in one sitting; you may find yourself putting it down for awhile, confused or exasperated by the latest turn of events, but it is quite likely that you will pick it up again in due course with curiousity drawing you back into the realm Marquez has created.
This was truly the great novel that Garcia Marquez was meant to write; to me everything of Marquez that followed seems like recycled material.
www.amazon.com /Hundred-Solitude-Gabriel-Garcia-Marquez/dp/0060929790   (1751 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Garcia Marquez, Gabriel - ( G ): Books   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (Paperback - Oct 7 2003)
Living to Tell the Tale by Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Edith Grossman (Paperback - Oct 12 2004)
The General in His Labyrinth by Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Edith Grossman (Paperback - Oct 7 2003)
www.amazon.ca /Garcia-Marquez-Gabriel-Books/b/ref=dp_brlad_entry/701-6843416-7750715?ie=UTF8&node=930922   (703 words)

  
 The My Hero Project - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
In 1996, while dining at author William Styron's Martha's Vineyard home, Garcia Marquez met President Bill Clinton.
Subsequently, Garcia Marquez wrote an admiring magazine profile about the former president during the height of the Monica Lewinsky scandal.
Vaclav Havel despite censorship, wrote plays that helped keep the hope of freedom alive....
www.myhero.com /myhero/hero.asp?hero=g_garciamarquez   (1232 words)

  
 One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Oprah's Book Club, Oprah Books Amazon.com, Amazon Book Store
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Oprah's Book Club), is the story of the village of Macondo, over 100 years by the fascinating personalities of the family of Jose Arcadio Buendia.
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