itâs impossible to see on his face any of the legendary shyness that, in Barcelona, made him be silent and tremble terribly whenever he had to speak in public. âI think that I must have social anxiety, like the Austrian Nobel laureate Elfriede Jelinek, because I can maintain a one-on-one conversation, but it terrifies me to address an auditorium of people. My shyness? I have the great advantage now that the people who come here are already intimidated â¦Â and that makes it easier for me.â
* Felipe González is a Spanish politician who served as Prime Minister of Spain from 1982 to 1996.
â A popular Spanish TV series about the last years of the Franco regime and the Transition.
â¡ The term for an intellectual and artistic movement in Barcelona in the 1960s and â70s made up of writers, publishers, architects, photographers, and fashion models.
§ Juan Carlos Gaviria was the brother of César Gaviria, who served as president of Colombia from 1990 to 1994, succeeded by Ernesto Sampler. Juan Carlos was kidnapped in 1996 by the rebel group Dignidad por Colombia (Dignity for Colombia), and they did indeed demand that GarcÃa Márquez take over Colombiaâs presidency from Sampler, whose campaign was believed to be financed in large part by drug traffickers.
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GABRIEL GARCÃA MÃRQUEZ (b. 1927, Aracataca, Colombia; d. 2014, Mexico City, Mexico) was a Colombian novelist, short-story writer, and journalist. He was one of the most influential and beloved writers of the twentieth century; his novel
One Hundred Years of Solitude
has been read by millions worldwide, and is the foremost example of âmagical realism.â His other books include
Love in the Time of Cholera, The Autumn of the Patriarch, No One Writes to the Colonel, Chronicle of a Death Foretold
, and a memoir,
Living to Tell the Tale
. He received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982.
ALONSO ÃNGEL RESTREPO was a journalist for the literary supplement to the newspaper
El Colombiano
.
ERNESTO GONZÃLEZ BERMEJO was the European correspondent for the magazine
Revista Crisis
and the author of a number of collections of interviews with major Latin American writers, including
Conversaciones con Cortázar
(1978) and
Conversaciones con Gabriel GarcÃa Márquez
(1982).
PLINIO APULEYO MENDOZA is the author of novels, works of political criticism, and two books about his longtime friendship with GarcÃa Márquez. He ran the Bogotá office of the news agency Prensa Latina with GarcÃa Márquez in the sixties, and has been a contributor to
El Tiempo
and other newspapers.
DAVID STREITFELD writes for
The New York Times
. He was part of a team that won the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting on how the economy is being reshaped by Apple, and he received a 2012 âBest in Businessâ award from the Society of American Business Editors and Writers for a story on a fake review factory. He lives near San Francisco with his family and way too many books.
XAVI AYÃN has covered cultural affairs for
La Vanguardia
since 1991. He is the co-author, with the photographer Kim Manresa, of the book
RebeldÃa de Nobel
(
Nobel Rebellion
), a series of interviews with Nobel Prize winners at their homes.
ELLIE ROBINS is a translator from Spanish who has worked in publishing in the UK and the United States.
THEO ELLIN BALLEW is a translator from Spanish and French.
THE LAST INTERVIEW SERIES
----
KURT VONNEGUT: THE LAST INTERVIEW
âI think it can be tremendously refreshing if a creator of literature has something on his mind other than the history of literature so far. Literature should not disappear up its own asshole, so to speak.â
$15.95 / $17.95 CAN
978-1-61219-090-7
ebook: 978-1-61219-091-4
LEARNING TO LIVE FINALLY: THE LAST INTERVIEW JACQUES DERRIDA
âI am at war with myself, itâs true, you couldnât possibly know to what extent â¦Â I say
* Felipe González is a Spanish politician who served as Prime Minister of Spain from 1982 to 1996.
â A popular Spanish TV series about the last years of the Franco regime and the Transition.
â¡ The term for an intellectual and artistic movement in Barcelona in the 1960s and â70s made up of writers, publishers, architects, photographers, and fashion models.
§ Juan Carlos Gaviria was the brother of César Gaviria, who served as president of Colombia from 1990 to 1994, succeeded by Ernesto Sampler. Juan Carlos was kidnapped in 1996 by the rebel group Dignidad por Colombia (Dignity for Colombia), and they did indeed demand that GarcÃa Márquez take over Colombiaâs presidency from Sampler, whose campaign was believed to be financed in large part by drug traffickers.
Â
GABRIEL GARCÃA MÃRQUEZ (b. 1927, Aracataca, Colombia; d. 2014, Mexico City, Mexico) was a Colombian novelist, short-story writer, and journalist. He was one of the most influential and beloved writers of the twentieth century; his novel
One Hundred Years of Solitude
has been read by millions worldwide, and is the foremost example of âmagical realism.â His other books include
Love in the Time of Cholera, The Autumn of the Patriarch, No One Writes to the Colonel, Chronicle of a Death Foretold
, and a memoir,
Living to Tell the Tale
. He received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982.
ALONSO ÃNGEL RESTREPO was a journalist for the literary supplement to the newspaper
El Colombiano
.
ERNESTO GONZÃLEZ BERMEJO was the European correspondent for the magazine
Revista Crisis
and the author of a number of collections of interviews with major Latin American writers, including
Conversaciones con Cortázar
(1978) and
Conversaciones con Gabriel GarcÃa Márquez
(1982).
PLINIO APULEYO MENDOZA is the author of novels, works of political criticism, and two books about his longtime friendship with GarcÃa Márquez. He ran the Bogotá office of the news agency Prensa Latina with GarcÃa Márquez in the sixties, and has been a contributor to
El Tiempo
and other newspapers.
DAVID STREITFELD writes for
The New York Times
. He was part of a team that won the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting on how the economy is being reshaped by Apple, and he received a 2012 âBest in Businessâ award from the Society of American Business Editors and Writers for a story on a fake review factory. He lives near San Francisco with his family and way too many books.
XAVI AYÃN has covered cultural affairs for
La Vanguardia
since 1991. He is the co-author, with the photographer Kim Manresa, of the book
RebeldÃa de Nobel
(
Nobel Rebellion
), a series of interviews with Nobel Prize winners at their homes.
ELLIE ROBINS is a translator from Spanish who has worked in publishing in the UK and the United States.
THEO ELLIN BALLEW is a translator from Spanish and French.
THE LAST INTERVIEW SERIES
----
KURT VONNEGUT: THE LAST INTERVIEW
âI think it can be tremendously refreshing if a creator of literature has something on his mind other than the history of literature so far. Literature should not disappear up its own asshole, so to speak.â
$15.95 / $17.95 CAN
978-1-61219-090-7
ebook: 978-1-61219-091-4
LEARNING TO LIVE FINALLY: THE LAST INTERVIEW JACQUES DERRIDA
âI am at war with myself, itâs true, you couldnât possibly know to what extent â¦Â I say
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