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  Vivian Clark

  

  The Wardrobe of Gabriel García Márquez – in pictures

  The Guardian - Guy Lane

  Four hundred items of clothing and accessories which belonged to García Márquez and his wife, Mercedes Barcha, go on sale this Wednesday to raise funds for a charity helping children of indigenous communities in Mexico

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  Vivian Clark

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez quotes that resonate today

  Al Jazeera

  Best known for his masterpiece 100 Years of Solitude, Marquez’s work offers a wealth of quotes on life, death and love. On Tuesday, March 6 Gabriel Garcia Marquez would have turned 91 years old. Described as one of the most popular Spanish-language writers, and hailed as “the greatest Colombian who …

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  Vivian Clark

  

  The Challenge

  The New Yorker - Gabriel García Márquez

  From 2003: Gabriel García Márquez on his early struggles and eventual—and troubling—success. I never imagined that, nine months after I had completed secondary school, my first story would be published in Fin de Semana, the weekend literary supplement of El Espectador, in Bogotá, and the most …

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  Vivian Clark

  

  Gabriel García Márquez’s Formative Reading List: 24 Books That Shaped One of Humanity’s Greatest Writers

  brainpickings.org

  “Life is not what one lived, but what one remembers and how one remembers it in order to recount it.”The most reliable portal into another’s psyche …

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  Vivian Clark

  

  The Secret History of One Hundred Years of Solitude

  Vanity Fair - Paul Elie

  The house, in a quiet part of Mexico City, had a study within, and in the study he found a solitude he had never known before and would never know again. Cigarettes (he smoked 60 a day) were on the worktable. LPs were on the record player: Debussy, Bartók, A Hard Day’s Night. Stuck up on the wall …

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  Vivian Clark

  

  El bibliotecario de García Márquez mira hacia un árbol de Navidad

  El Pais - Pablo de Llano

  “Él me dijo: ‘Acá está la biblioteca’”, e Iván Granados se puso a reorganizar los libros de Gabriel García Márquez en su casa de la ciudad de México. …