Topic: Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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Gabriel García Márquez: 10 quotes for his birthday
10 quotes from Gabriel García Márquez on his birthday.
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Top 10 books of 2011, according to Amazon's editors
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3 new fiction titles from award-winning novelists
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Nobel Prize in Literature: Which Latin American writers have won?
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Mario Vargas Llosa wins 2010 Nobel Prize for Literature. Who else won in the past decade?
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Chapter & Verse Should prison inmates be allowed to read whatever they choose?
"Werewolf erotica"? A history of race relations? The Bible? What should prisoners be reading – and does society have the right to decide for them?
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Chapter & Verse Why do we abandon books halfway through?
Guilt may push us to finish a book – while e-readers make it only too easy to quit.
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Chapter & Verse Herta Muller calls Mo Yan's Nobel win 'a catastrophe'
Nobel Prize laureate Herta Muller accuses Mo Yan of praising his country's censorship laws and calls his win 'a slap in the face for all those working for democracy and human rights.'
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How did China's Mo Yan win the Nobel Prize for literature? (+video)
While many including China's Communist Party celebrated their countryman's receipt of the Nobel Prize for literature, others criticized the winner, Mo Yan, for failing to be innovative or independent.
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Chapter & Verse Chinese writer Mo Yan wins the Nobel Prize for literature
Mo Yan, whose real name is Guan Moye, is the first Chinese citizen to win the award.
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Chinese author Mo Yan wins Nobel Prize in literature (+video)
Nobel Laureate Mo Yan gives readers outside China an idea of what it is like to be Chinese, while people inside China gain a sense of history, says one distinguished translator.
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Chapter & Verse Gabriel García Márquez may never write again
The Nobel Prize-winning author's brother says the effects of dementia mean Márquez may be unable to write.
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Latin America Monitor Documentary paying homage to Augusto Pinochet incites anger, protests in Chile
The long-running grudge by the left against dictator Pinochet and by the right against his predecessor, President Salvador Allende, has played out in every medium from street marches to documentaries.
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Latin America Monitor New TV series on druglord Pablo Escobar: Why the continued interest?
A new Colombian series about the life of Pablo Escobar has reportedly broken audience viewing records and generated renewed interest in the kingpin nearly 19 years after his death.
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Carlos Fuentes: Tribute to a Mexican literary and political icon
Carlos Fuentes belonged to a generation of Latin American writers who were both literary and political, author and social commentator. Fuentes was a public intellectual.
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Prime literary real estate
They like to imagine themselves living in grand fictional homes – or even humble ones.
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Gabriel García Márquez: 10 quotes for his birthday
10 quotes from Gabriel García Márquez on his birthday.
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Chapter & Verse Korean literature's rise on the back of "Please Look After Mom"
Will one bestselling novel – "Please Look After Mom" – help Korean literature find its way in the global marketplace?
07/12/2011 10:27 am -
Top 10 books of 2011, according to Amazon's editors
Amazon's editors pick their top 10 books of the year so far.
06/27/2011 03:20 pm -
Difference Maker Saving monarch butterflies stirs the 'poetical soul' of Homero Aridjis
Homero Aridjis, one of Mexico's top environmentalists and poets, has led the battle to save the habitat of monarch butterflies, Pacific gray whales, and sea turtles.
06/06/2011 10:37 am -
3 new fiction titles from award-winning novelists
Aside from the fact that they are all third novels by award-winning novelists, this month's fiction roundup offers plenty of variety – from a dark fable set on the coast of Newfoundland to a portrait of a Midwestern family in flux to a journalistic thriller set in Nigeria.
06/01/2011 10:59 am -
Nobel Prize in Literature: Which Latin American writers have won?
Mario Vargas Llosa is the first Latin American to win the honored literary prize in 12 years. Of the 102 awards presented since 1901, only eight have gone to Latin American writers.
10/07/2010 03:47 pm -
Mario Vargas Llosa wins 2010 Nobel Prize for Literature. Who else won in the past decade?
Mario Vargas Llosa has won the 2010 Nobel Prize for Literature. The Peruvian author and former presidential candidate received the prestigious Cervantes Prize in 1995 and is the first South American author to win the Nobel since Gabriel García Márquez won the award in 1982. Here are the past decade's winners.
10/07/2010 02:11 pm -
Mario Vargas Llosa: Why the 2010 Nobel Prize winner stirs controversy in Peru
Mario Vargas Llosa's political identity as a right-wing maverick as made waves on both sides of Peru's political spectrum since the 1980s.
10/07/2010 01:38 pm -
Chapter & Verse Mario Vargas Llosa wins the Nobel Prize in Literature
Mario Vargas Llosa, one of Latin America's most politically engaged and influential writers, will be awarded the 2010 Nobel Prize in Literature.
10/07/2010 10:52 am -
Oil spill cleanup: After digging deep to kill well, BP faces long climb
Killing the well at this point was the easy part of the oil spill cleanup for the beleaguered corporate giant, whose image will be stained, and bottom line impacted, for years to come.
09/20/2010 05:35 pm -
Chapter & Verse I Write Like… David Foster Wallace?
07/19/2010 11:57 am -
Classic review: Chronicle of a Death Foretold
Garcia Marquez chronicles the murder of Santiago Nasar in a small unnamed South American village.
07/11/2010 07:05 am -
Mother and Child: movie review
Wrapped around the theme of adoption, ‘Mother and Child’ is a weepfest of intersecting story lines pulled together by a top-drawer cast.
05/09/2010 12:46 pm -
Editor's Blog Do we really want to curl up with an e-book?
E-books and e-readers work well with page-turners, best-sellers, and text-heavy tomes -- not so well when a book needs images or a book-lover needs the look and feel of ink and paper.
12/23/2009 09:42 am
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