News: From The Independent:Furious Garcia Marquez denies he will never write again
In the next few days I have to read and review a biography on Gabriel Garcia Marquez. While reading all my assorted news items, I came upon this piece of news from The Independent concerning Marquez:
Furious Garcia Marquez denies he will never write again
By Elizabeth Nash in Madrid
The venerable Nobel prize-winning author Gabriel Garcia Marquez has set pages fluttering in publishing circles by furiously denying reports that he’ll never write again.
“Not only is that not true, but what is true is that I do nothing else but write,” Garcia Marquez said at the weekend. The 82-year-old Colombian father of magical realism, who is probably the best known living author in the Spanish-speaking world, was pressed by the Bogota newspaper El Tiempo on whether it was true that he was to publish no more books. To read more of the article go to The Independent.
Rebeca Schiller is the editor of Alvah's Books. She reviews literary fiction and non-fiction.