Gabriel García Márquez
Imaginary regions: travel book ‘journeys’ to fictional literary locations
Spanish anthology explores places created by authors such as Gabriel García Márquez and Chinua Achebe
Sam Jones
09, May, 2022 @11:15 AM
Barcelona honours Gabriel García Márquez with new library
The Colombian Nobel laureate, who lived in the city from 1967-75, is to have a €12m building specialising in Latin American literature named after him
Stephen Burgen in Barcelona
17, Apr, 2022 @8:00 AM
Mateo García Elizondo: ‘I get a little bored by having to talk about my grandfather’
The writer – and grandson of Gabriel García Márquez – on Mexican folklore, his early love of horror and learning to live with the family’s literary legacy
Joe Parkin Daniels
22, May, 2021 @5:00 PM
This One Sky Day by Leone Ross review – a magical Caribbean of the mind
This eccentric, capacious novel takes the reader on a surreal ride around a fictional archipelago
Michael Donkor
21, Apr, 2021 @6:30 AM
Vick Hope: 'I didn’t just cry when reading A Little Life, I bawled'
The TV presenter, author and Women’s prize judge on reading To Kill a Mockingbird at nine, the influence of Malorie Blackman and her love for David Almond’s novels
Vick Hope
19, Feb, 2021 @10:00 AM
Carla Bruni's teenage obsessions: 'Francis Bacon shows our confusion, desire, madness'
As she returns with a new album, the French chanteuse recalls the genius of the Clash and Henry James, plus encounters with Balearic naturists
Interview by Dave Simpson
16, Oct, 2020 @9:00 AM
Top 10 Latin American short stories
Its fiction is best known to English readers through novels, but its short stories are better. From Jorge Luis Borges to Clarice Lispector, here are some of the best
Fernando Sdrigotti
22, Apr, 2020 @11:11 AM
Top 10 novels about unconventional families | Ingrid Persaud
Trinidadian novelist Ingrid Persaud chooses books in which people attach themselves to ‘a something’ that might ease their loneliness
Ingrid Persaud
15, Apr, 2020 @9:30 AM
Book clinic: where are the romantic novels that aren’t riddled with cliches?
From Jane Eyre to Colm Tóibín’s Brooklyn, Kate Kellaway recommends the best reads about love
Kate Kellaway
11, Jan, 2020 @6:00 PM
Chigozie Obioma: ‘I would rush to the library in my lunch break to read the Odyssey’
The Booker prize nominated novelist on the King James Bible and finding comfort in books about birds
Chigozie Obioma
30, Aug, 2019 @8:58 AM
The Sandman, Catch-22, Cloud Atlas ... is there such thing as an 'unfilmable' book?
Books by authors like Neil Gaiman and Gabriel García Márquez have been dismissed as too difficult to adapt. With Netflix offering both time and cash, is that true anymore?
Sian Cain
03, Jul, 2019 @1:23 PM
Colombians await One Hundred Years of Solitude screen adaptation with joy and fear
Can Netflix’s screen adaptation capture the richness of Gabriel García Márquez’s landmark novel?
Joe Parkin Daniels in Bogotá
08, Mar, 2019 @8:00 AM
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