Gabriel Garcia Marquez -- Life, Thought and Work

Stories and Excerpts

• First stories from Collected Stories
• "The Handsomest Drowned Man In The World"
• "A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings"
• Excerpt from One Hundred Years of Solitude
• “Death Constant Beyond Love”
• The Autumn of the Patriarch (excerpt)

The New Yorker

• Personal History:  The Challenge:  A young writer proves himself.
• Richard Avedon's portrait of Gabriel García Márquez
• profile

The Modern Word (resources)

Nobel Prize.org

• Prize Speech
• Banquet Speech (in Spanish)

Interviews:

1. The Paris Review
2. Pete Hamill at Vanity Fair
3. Oprah
4. New York Times
5. The Atlantic:

• William Kennedy's long interview, "The Yellow Trolley Car in Barcelona, and Other Visions":
• "Faulkner created Yoknapatawpha County. Welcome to García Márquez' Macondo."
• Excerpt from same interview:  "The Origins of Gabriel Garcia Marquez's Magic Realism":
• "Surrealism runs through the streets. Surrealism comes from the reality of Latin America."

Biographies, News and Appreciations:

1. FT.com: “[W]hat I like about you is the serious way you make up nonsense.”
2. Time: "And when he died on Thursday in his home in Mexico City, it did not seem impossible that a man could open his mouth and songbirds would fly out." 
3. Peter Carey
4. Edwidge Danticat
5. Edmund White
6. "Nobel author Gabriel García Márquez wins 17-year legal fight over murder classic: Colombian court rules against man who claimed author used his life story for main character in Chronicle of a Death Foretold."
7. Wikipedia
8. Mental Floss

Quotes:

• Policy Mic
• Buzz Feed