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...And, from the opening sentence — which softly echoes the work of Gabriel García Márquez — there is a sense of one magical realist tipping her hat to another: “On the first anniversary of his wife’s death...
...From Gabriel García Márquez to Nadine Gordimer and Maya Angelou, a larger world slowly took shape on his bookshelves....
...His list featured six Nobel laureates including Gabriel Garciá Márquez, Kazuo Ishiguro and Toni Morrison, numerous literary prize winners such as Robert Caro and Cormac McCarthy, but also popular bestsellers...
...Marcel Proust, Gabriel García Márquez and Margaret Atwood can keep a long sentence in the air for as long as necessary....
...is eclectic, running from EL James’s Fifty Shades of Grey to JK Rowling’s first non-Harry Potter novel, The Casual Vacancy , uniting Donna Tartt’s The Goldfinch , Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick and Gabriel García...
...García Márquez, paying tribute to Gregory Rabassa’s pitch-perfect translations of his novels, understood what it took to re-create a book in another language....
...James has no patience with genre snobbery, and his literary influences clearly range far beyond JRR Tolkien — from Gabriel Garciá Márquez to Ursula K Le Guin, NK Jemisin to Philip Pullman, he draws from...
...“The vice of reading anything that came my way occupied my free time,” García Márquez wrote in his memoir, Living To Tell The Tale....
...Nilanjana Roy Novelist and FT contributor “A grieving woman becomes the custodian of a Great Dane, also in mourning for his own reasons, in an apartment that doesn’t allow dogs.”...
...In 2011, a professor of Spanish found the original manuscript of Federico Garcia Lorca’s poem, “Office and Denunciation”, in the music division of the Library of Congress....
...and Homer’s Iliad, along with the Lady Murasaki’s The Tale of Genji, Valmiki’s Ramayana, but also Sima Qian’s Records of the Grand Historian, Charles Dickens and Charles Darwin, Chinua Achebe and Gabriel García...
...Nilanjana Roy is the author ‘The Wildings’ and ‘The Hundred Names of Darkness’ and lives in Delhi. @nilanjanaroy...
...For Mr Harvey and Mr Roy, retirement was attractive because they wanted a break from the demands of the job....
...Nilanjana Roy is the author of ‘The Wildings’ and ‘The Hundred Names of Darkness’ and lives in Delhi. @nilanjanaroy...
...Many of English football’s problems – World Cup failure, manager Roy Hodgson’s ability, a dearth of homegrown players in the Premier League – were thrown at Greg Dyke on Tuesday as MPs gathered to quiz the...
...“You have to be different,” says Roy Price, the Californian executive in charge of Transparent and vice-president of the studio behind it....
...But there are many more subtle forms of mediation than those deployed by Rushdie or Roy....
...… Remaking a Garden: The Laskett Transformed, by Roy Strong, Frances Lincoln, RRP£30/$50 Sir Roy Strong has reinvented the garden he created in the 1970s with his late wife Julia Trevelyan Oman....
...I had ring-side seats at his final fight with Roy Jones Jr at Madison Square Garden, on Joe’s ticket allocation.”...
...intellectual; Roy Chaderton, Venezuela’s ambassador at the Organisation of American States; and Germán Mundaraín, Venezuela’s envoy to the UN’s human rights council....
...The book has recently been made into a film starring Mexican actor Gael Garcia Bernal....
...Parliament for the United Left Group, (GUE/NGL), Sweden Farhad Jahanmahan, WTO Coordinator, ATTAC, Sweden Fatima Mello, coordinator, Rede Brasileira pela Integracao dos Povos (REBRIP), Brazil Ferran Garcia...
...Mertin remembers how publishers always used to demand the Brazilian equivalent of Garcia Marquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude....
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