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...By the mid-1990s, she had adopted Mario Vargas Llosa as her other most consistent collaborator. (He would also become her second Nobel laureate.)...
...Gabriel García Márquez, the most famous writer in the Spanish-speaking world since Miguel Cervantes, is a difficult subject for a biographer....
...I am not sure that the modern novel, however, has changed significantly since its invention by Cervantes in 1605, when Don Quixote was published (150 years after Guttenberg’s revolution of mass printing,...
...Cervantes spent five grim years as a prisoner of Barbary slavers, picking up the Mediterranean mish-mash of languages known as “sabir”....
...Mario Alonzo, for one, is open to persuasion....
...César Cervantes Outside César Cervantes’ home in a leafy residential district in Mexico City stands a car crushed by an eight-ton boulder – Jimmie Durham’s “Still Life with Spirit and Xitle” (2007)....
...In the 1960s, this link led to the emergence of the Latin American “boom” generation that included Colombia’s Gabriel García Márquez and Peru’s Mario Vargas Llosa, who spent many years in Barcelona....
...Mario Vargas Llosa’s The Feast of the Goat, a fictionalised portrait of the Dominican dictator Rafael Trujillo, came second....
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