Garcia Marquez Dies: Magical Realism Loses Its Master
He wrote 'One Hundred Years of Solitude' in eighteen months, typing through the night in a Mexico City apartment while his family ran up debts they couldn't pay. The manuscript was so long he could only afford to mail half of it to the publisher. His wife pawned a blender and a hairdryer to cover the postage for the rest. The Nobel came in 1982. He died in 2014, and Colombia declared three days of mourning.
April 17, 2014
12 years ago
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