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Article: an homage ... Gabriel Garcia Marquez.(Daily Break)
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- The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA)
- Article date:
- May 31, 2009
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By Jonathan Yardley
The Washington Post
FAR MORE SO than most writers, Gabriel Garcia Marquez has lived a full life that goes beyond his typewriter or, more recently, his computer. Not merely has he written three of the 20th century's greatest novels - "One Hundred Years of Solitude," "The Autumn of the Patriarch" and "Love in the Time of Cholera" - he has been a highly active participant in public events during a time of immense change and controversy in Latin America. He has been the friend and confidant of presidents (and dictators), a leading advocate of leftist politics, a dabbler in moviemaking and a widely read, influential journalist, among ...