"Gabriel Betancourt Gabriel Betancourt Mejía (born April 27, 1918 in Medellín – died March 23, 2002 in Bogotá) was a Colombian economist and diplomat who served as Colombia's Minister of National Education in two occasions, and Permanent Delegate to UNESCO. Gabriel Betancourt was born in Medellín on April 27, 1918 to Pedro Nolasco Adriano Betancur Toro and Mariana Mejía Arango as the youngest of 9 children. Betancourt was a member of the government of president Gustavo Rojas Pinilla. He later became assistant director of the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). He was also head of the education"
"continent's life and conflicts"". His acceptance speech was entitled ""The Solitude of Latin America"". García Márquez was the first Colombian and fourth Latin American to win a Nobel Prize for Literature. After becoming a Nobel laureate, García Márquez stated to a correspondent: ""I have the impression that in giving me the prize, they have taken into account the literature of the sub-continent and have awarded me as a way of awarding all of this literature"". Gabriel García Márquez Gabriel José de la Concordia García Márquez (; 6 March 1927 – 17 April 2014) was a Colombian novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter"
"Gabriel García Márquez Gabriel José de la Concordia García Márquez (; 6 March 1927 – 17 April 2014) was a Colombian novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter and journalist, known affectionately as Gabo or Gabito throughout Latin America. Considered one of the most significant authors of the 20th century and one of the best in the Spanish language, he was awarded the 1972 Neustadt International Prize for Literature and the 1982 Nobel Prize in Literature. He pursued a self-directed education that resulted in his leaving law school for a career in journalism. From early on, he showed no inhibitions in his criticism"
"Gabriel García Márquez"". García Márquez died of pneumonia at the age of 87 on 17 April 2014 in Mexico City. His death was confirmed by his relative Fernanda Familiar on Twitter, and by his former editor Cristóbal Pera. The Colombian president Juan Manuel Santos mentioned: ""One Hundred Years of Solitude and sadness for the death of the greatest Colombian of all time"". The former Colombian president Álvaro Uribe Vélez said: ""Master García Márquez, thanks forever, millions of people in the planet fell in love with our nation fascinated with your lines"". At the time of his death, he had a"
"are set in the fictional village of Macondo (mainly inspired by his birthplace, Aracataca), and most of them explore the theme of solitude. Upon García Márquez’s death in April 2014, Juan Manuel Santos, the President of Colombia, called him ""the greatest Colombian who ever lived."" Gabriel García Márquez was born on 6 March 1927 in Aracataca, Colombia, to Gabriel Eligio García and Luisa Santiaga Márquez Iguarán. Soon after García Márquez was born, his father became a pharmacist and moved, with his wife, to Barranquilla, leaving young Gabriel in Aracataca. He was raised by his maternal grandparents, Doña Tranquilina Iguarán and"
"urgency in which fiction became the way to organize lessons from the past."" Fuentes died on May 15, 2012. Gabriel García Márquez started out as a journalist and has written many acclaimed non-fiction and short stories; his earliest published writings were short stories which appeared in Bogotá's ""El Espectador"" newspaper in the 1940s. He is best known for novels such as ""One Hundred Years of Solitude"" (1967) and ""The Autumn of the Patriarch"" (1975), ""No One Writes to the Colonel"" (1962), and post-Boom work such as ""Love in the Time of Cholera"" (1985). He has achieved significant critical acclaim and"
"Federico García Lorca Federico del Sagrado Corazón de Jesús García Lorca, known as Federico García Lorca (; 5 June 1898 – 19 August 1936), was a Spanish poet, playwright, and theatre director. García Lorca achieved international recognition as an emblematic member of the Generation of '27, a group consisting of mostly poets who introduced the tenets of European movements (such as symbolism, futurism, and surrealism) into Spanish literature. He was executed by Nationalist forces at the beginning of the Spanish Civil War. His body has never been found. In 2008, a Spanish judge opened an investigation into Lorca's death. The"
"Márquez died on April 17, 2014. Mario Vargas Llosa is a Peruvian novelist, short story writer, playwright, journalist and literary and political critic. He attended Lima's University of San Marcos and subsequently attained a doctorate in Latin American literature in Spain. In fact, his thesis was on Gabriel García Márquez. He shot to fame with his novel ""The Time of the Hero"" (1963), a scathing indictment of cruelty and corruption in a Peruvian military academy (and, by implication, in Peruvian society). Vargas Llosa also wrote ""The Green House"" (1966), the epic Conversation in the Cathedral (1969), Captain Pantoja and the"
"where he lived has been kept as a shrine and contains original writings and drawings of his. Federico García Lorca Federico del Sagrado Corazón de Jesús García Lorca, known as Federico García Lorca (; 5 June 1898 – 19 August 1936), was a Spanish poet, playwright, and theatre director. García Lorca achieved international recognition as an emblematic member of the Generation of '27, a group consisting of mostly poets who introduced the tenets of European movements (such as symbolism, futurism, and surrealism) into Spanish literature. He was executed by Nationalist forces at the beginning of the Spanish Civil War. His"
"Gabriel García Márquez. During the eighteen months that García Márquez worked on his book ""One Hundred Years of Solitude"", García Ascot and his wife visited García Márquez's house each night and critiqued the story as it developed. García Márquez dedicated the book to the couple with the inscription ""Para (to) Jomí García Ascot y María Luisa Elío"". García Ascot died in Mexico City on 14 August 1986. García wrote both fiction and scholarly works, as well as poetry. His film, ""En el balcón vacío"" (In the Empty Balcony) won the Critics Award at the Locarno International Film Festival (1962) and"
"The Solitude of Latin America ""The Solitude of Latin America"" is the title of the speech given by Gabriel García Márquez upon receiving his Nobel Prize in Literature on 8 December 1982. The Nobel Prize was presented to García Márquez by Professor Lars Gyllensten of the Swedish Academy. García Márquez gained fame for his novel ""One Hundred Years of Solitude"", first published in 1967. According to the Nobel Foundation, García Márquez was awarded the 1982 Nobel Prize in Literature for “his novels and short stories, in which the fantastic and the realistic are combined in a richly composed world of"
"Náufrago"", he generously ceded the author's rights and royalties to Velasco. In 1983, Velasco sued for translation rights to the book and lost. In the last week of his life, he apologized to García Márquez for the lawsuit. He died in Bogotá on August 2, 2000, aged 66. The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor (original Spanish-language title: ""Relato de un náufrago"") is a work of non-fiction by Colombian writer Gabriel García Márquez. The full title is The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor: Who Drifted on a Liferaft for Ten Days Without Food or Water,"
"second opportunity to create its own utopia through declining the acceptance of its fate of solitude. The Solitude of Latin America ""The Solitude of Latin America"" is the title of the speech given by Gabriel García Márquez upon receiving his Nobel Prize in Literature on 8 December 1982. The Nobel Prize was presented to García Márquez by Professor Lars Gyllensten of the Swedish Academy. García Márquez gained fame for his novel ""One Hundred Years of Solitude"", first published in 1967. According to the Nobel Foundation, García Márquez was awarded the 1982 Nobel Prize in Literature for “his novels and short"
"writing is within the Latin American tradition of political writers, such as Gabriel García Márquez. He mentioned that as a child, he read Jules Verne, Emilio Salgari and Alexandre Dumas, and their influence can be detected in his writing. For example, in ""Tango for a Torturer"", the influence of ""The Count of Monte Cristo"" is clear. Chavarría’s life and writings clearly show his communist and revolutionary background. He was a well known supporter of the Cuban Revolution. In 2010, Chavarría won Cuba's National Prize for Literature. Chavarría died in Havana on 6 April 2018, aged 84. Joy: The 6th island:"
"the Officer's Cross of the Order of Isabella the Catholic for her services to Spain. María Luisa Elío María Luisa Elío Bernal (17 August 1926 – 17 July 2009) was a Spanish writer and actress exiled in Mexico. She was an inspiration for Gabriel García Márquez. She wrote and acted in an autobiographical film, ""El balcón vacío"" (The Empty Balcony), which was one of the first films to depict the life of Spanish exiles during the Spanish Civil War. Born in Pamplona on 17 August 1926, María Luisa was the third and last daughter of Luis Elío Torres and Carmen"
"Germán Espinosa Germán Espinosa Villareal (April 30, 1938 – October 17, 2007) was a Colombian novelist, poet and author born and based in Cartagena, Colombia. He wrote over forty works over the course of his career. He often used his native Cartagena for the backdrop or inspiration for his writings. His historical fiction writings featured such diverse topics as witches, pirates and the Spanish Inquisition. Espinosa was often called ""Gabo sin Nobel,"" or ""Garcia Marquez without the prize"" in English. The quote referred to fellow Colombian writer, Garcia Marquez, who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982. Espinosa was"
"Premio Grinzane Cavour, and 2003 International Dublin Literary Award. Octavio Paz Lozano (1914 – 1998) was a Mexican poet and diplomat. For his body of work, he was awarded the 1981 Miguel de Cervantes Prize, the 1982 Neustadt International Prize for Literature, and the 1990 Nobel Prize in Literature. Gabriel García Márquez (1927 – 2014) was a Colombian novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter, and journalist. Considered one of the most significant authors of the 20th century and one of the best in the Spanish language, he was awarded the 1972 Neustadt International Prize for Literature and the 1982 Nobel Prize in"
"The Autumn of the Patriarch The Autumn of the Patriarch (original Spanish title: ""El otoño del patriarca"") is a novel written by Gabriel García Márquez in 1975. A ""poem on the solitude of power"" according to the author, the novel is a flowing tract on the life of an eternal dictator. The book is divided into six sections, each retelling the same story of the infinite power held by the archetypical Caribbean tyrant. García Márquez based his fictional dictator on a variety of real-life fascists, including Gustavo Rojas Pinilla of his Colombian homeland, Generalissimo Francisco Franco of Spain (the novel"
"is it not true, but the only thing I do is write"". In 2012, his brother Jaime announced that García Márquez was suffering from dementia. In April 2014, García Márquez was hospitalized in Mexico. He had infections in his lungs and his urinary tract, and was suffering from dehydration. He was responding well to antibiotics. Mexican president Enrique Peña Nieto wrote on Twitter, ""I wish him a speedy recovery"". Colombian president Juan Manuel Santos said his country was thinking of the author and said in a tweet ""All of Colombia wishes a speedy recovery to the greatest of all time:"
"Rafael María Baralt Rafael María Baralt y Pérez (3 July 1810 - 4 January 1860) was a Venezuelan diplomat and one of the country's most famed writers, philologists, and historians. He was the first Latin American to occupy a chair at the Real Academia Española. Born in Maracaibo on 3 July 1810, he suffered an untimely death in Madrid due to the stresses and aggravations suffered during services rendered to his beloved country of birth. Baralt was the son of Miguel Antonio Baralt, who helped build the Baralt Theater in Maracaibo, and Ana Francisca Pérez, who was Dominican. He died"
"wife and two sons. Garcia Marquez was cremated at a private family ceremony in Mexico City. On 22 April, the presidents of Colombia and Mexico attended a formal ceremony in Mexico City, where Garcia Marquez had lived for more than three decades. A funeral cortege took the urn containing his ashes from his house to the Palacio de Bellas Artes, where the memorial ceremony was held. Earlier, residents in his home town of Aracataca in Colombia's Caribbean region held a symbolic funeral. While there are certain aspects readers can almost always expect in García Márquez's writing, like instances of humour,"
"Bibliography of works on Che Guevara Ernesto ""Che"" Guevara (June 14, 1928 – October 9, 1967), was an Argentine Marxist revolutionary, politician, author, intellectual, physician, military theorist, and guerrilla leader. His life, legacy, and ideas have attracted a great deal of interest from historians, artists, film makers, musicians, and biographers. In reference to the abundance of material, Nobel Prize–winning author Gabriel García Márquez has declared that ""it would take a thousand years and a million pages to write Che's biography."" What follows is an extensive list of English language works related to Che Guevara, excluding books written by Guevara himself."
"Bibliography of works on Che Guevara Ernesto ""Che"" Guevara (June 14, 1928 – October 9, 1967), was an Argentine Marxist revolutionary, politician, author, intellectual, physician, military theorist, and guerrilla leader. His life, legacy, and ideas have attracted a great deal of interest from historians, artists, film makers, musicians, and biographers. In reference to the abundance of material, Nobel Prize–winning author Gabriel García Márquez has declared that ""it would take a thousand years and a million pages to write Che's biography."" What follows is an extensive list of English language works related to Che Guevara, excluding books written by Guevara himself."
"on 4 January 1860, and is buried in the National Pantheon of Venezuela. Rafael María Baralt Rafael María Baralt y Pérez (3 July 1810 - 4 January 1860) was a Venezuelan diplomat and one of the country's most famed writers, philologists, and historians. He was the first Latin American to occupy a chair at the Real Academia Española. Born in Maracaibo on 3 July 1810, he suffered an untimely death in Madrid due to the stresses and aggravations suffered during services rendered to his beloved country of birth. Baralt was the son of Miguel Antonio Baralt, who helped build the"
"Ernesto Giménez Caballero Ernesto Giménez Caballero (2 August 1899 in Madrid – 14 May 1988 in Madrid), also known as Gecé, was a Spanish writer, film director, diplomat, and pioneer of Falangism. His work has been categorized as being part of the Surrealist movement, while Stanley G. Payne has described him as the Spanish Gabriele d'Annunzio. Educated at the Complutense University of Madrid and to doctorate level at the University of Strasbourg, he initially espoused socialism. Influenced by José Ortega y Gasset's critique of democracy, however, he became a nationalist in the vein of Miguel de Unamuno. He performed his"
"of Colombian and foreign politics. In 1958, he married Mercedes Barcha; they had two sons, Rodrigo and Gonzalo. García Márquez started as a journalist, and wrote many acclaimed non-fiction works and short stories, but is best known for his novels, such as ""One Hundred Years of Solitude"" (1967), ""The Autumn of the Patriarch"" (1975), and ""Love in the Time of Cholera"" (1985). His works have achieved significant critical acclaim and widespread commercial success, most notably for popularizing a literary style known as magic realism, which uses magical elements and events in otherwise ordinary and realistic situations. Some of his works"
"Strange Pilgrims Strange Pilgrims (original Spanish-language title: ""Doce cuentos peregrinos"") is a collection of twelve loosely related short stories by the Nobel Prize–winning Colombian writer Gabriel García Márquez. Not published until 1992, the stories that make up this collection were originally written during the seventies and eighties. Each of the stories touches on the theme of dislocation and the strangeness of life in a foreign land, although quite what ""foreign"" means is one of García Márquez's central questions. García Márquez himself spent some years as a virtual exile from his native Colombia. The twelve stories are: An overthrown Latin American"
"The General in His Labyrinth The General in His Labyrinth (original Spanish title: ) is a 1989 dictator novel by Colombian writer and Nobel laureate Gabriel García Márquez. It is a fictionalized account of the last seven months of Simón Bolívar, liberator and leader of Gran Colombia. The book traces Bolívar's final journey from Bogotá to the Caribbean coastline of Colombia in his attempt to leave South America for exile in Europe. Breaking with the traditional heroic portrayal of Bolívar , García Márquez depicts a pathetic protagonist, a prematurely aged man who is physically ill and mentally exhausted. The story"
"world and is the author's best selling and most translated work, there have been no movies produced of it as García Márquez never agreed to sell the rights to produce such a film. One Hundred Years of Solitude One Hundred Years of Solitude (, ) is a landmark 1967 novel by Colombian author Gabriel García Márquez that tells the multi-generational story of the Buendía family, whose patriarch, José Arcadio Buendía, founded the town of Macondo, a fictitious town in the country of Colombia. The magical realist style and thematic substance of ""One Hundred Years of Solitude"" established it as an"
"súa obra, fixo que Galicia durase mil primaveras máis"" (""Here lies someone who, with his work, made Galicia last a thousand more springs""), alongside another inscription that reads ""Loubado seña Deus que me permitiu facerme home neste grande Reino que chamamos Galicia"" (""Praised be God who allowed me to become a man in this great Kingdom we call Galicia""). Álvaro Cunqueiro Álvaro Cunqueiro Mora (Mondoñedo, December 22, 1911 – Vigo, February 28, 1981) was a Galician novelist, poet, playwright, and journalist. He is the author of many works in both Galician and Spanish, including ""Merlín e familia"" (""Merlin and family"")."
"Márquez returned to Europe, this time bringing along his family, to live in Barcelona, Spain, for seven years. The international recognition García Márquez earned with the publication of the novel led to his ability to act as a facilitator in several negotiations between the Colombian government and the guerrillas, including the former 19th of April Movement (M-19), and the current FARC and ELN organizations. The popularity of his writing also led to friendships with powerful leaders, including one with former Cuban president Fidel Castro, which has been analyzed in ""Gabo and Fidel: Portrait of a Friendship."" It was during this"
"Gerald Martin Gerald Martin (born 1944) is a critic of Latin American fiction. He is particularly known for his work on the Guatemalan author Miguel Ángel Asturias and on the Colombian Gabriel García Márquez, both of whom are winners of the Nobel Prize for Literature. His 2008 book, ""Gabriel García Márquez. A Life"", was the first full biography of García Márquez to be published in English. Gerald Martin (London 1944) studied Spanish, French and Portuguese at Bristol (1965) and received his PhD in Latin American Literature from the University of Edinburgh (1970). He spent a year in Cochabamba, Bolivia, with"
"Colombia in which fellow writer and journalist Gabriel García Márquez—with whom he was also a member of the more particularized Barranquilla Group—and painter Alejandro Obregón also played prominent roles. Only one of his works, ""La casa grande"", has received considerable notice beyond the Spanish-speaking world, having been translated into several languages, English and French among them; his fame as a writer has therefore been significantly curtailed in the greater international readership, as the breadth of his literary and journalistic output has reached few audiences beyond those of Latin America and Latin American literary scholars. Álvaro Cepeda Samudio was born in"