A recipe for magical realism: Gabriel García Márquez and a video game about potatoes
The designer of Sopa: The Tale of the Stolen Potato explains how his Colombian background informs the forthcoming game
May 2024
Netflix’s One Hundred Years of Solitude brings fame to Gabriel García Márquez’s Colombian hometown
Locals hope TV adaptation of One Hundred Years of Solitude will bring new life to Aracataca, birthplace of author’s magical realism
April 2024
Latin American authors on rise in International Booker prize lists
Today’s boom in Latin American literature is spearheaded by women, from Fernanda Melchor, Mariana Enriquez to Samanta Schweblin, who engage with femicide, trauma and violence through horror and speculative fiction
March 2024
Until August by Gabriel García Márquez review – his abandoned last novel
Posthumously published against the Latin American Nobel laureate’s wishes, this brisk and frisky tale of extramarital sex is better than he feared
‘An act of betrayal’: Gabriel García Márquez’s son on publishing his father’s work against his will
The Colombian Nobel laureate’s children have published Until August a decade after their father’s death, despite the author’s wish that it should be destroyed
Book of the day
Until August by Gabriel García Márquez review – a ‘lost’ last novel
This slight work by the Latin American master explores sex, betrayal and damaging secrets through the story of a woman’s one-night stands
October 2023
Sorry, Victoria’s Secret, your ‘woke’ rebrand failed because it was performative pants
Barbara Ellen
Gabriel García Márquez’s last novel stands in tribute to his defiance of dementia
Wendy Mitchell
September 2023
Edith Grossman obituary
Edith Grossman, acclaimed translator, dies at 87
August 2023
Barcelona community resource named world’s best new public library
The last word
‘Pandora! I adore ya!’: the best descriptions of first love in literature
April 2023
Unseen Gabriel García Márquez novel to be published next year
Colombian author’s En Agosto Now Vemos (We’ll See Each Other in August) had been just a rumour but now fans will get to read it
March 2023
Márquez overtakes Cervantes as most translated Spanish-language writer
Author of One Hundred Years of Solitude tops list of those most translated into 10 languages this century ahead of Don Quixote creator
January 2023
Top 10s
Top 10 novels and stories about prophets
Whether sad, fierce or downright murderous, these clairvoyant figures have enthralled writers from Sophocles to Charlotte Brontë and Hilary Mantel
May 2022
Imaginary regions: travel book ‘journeys’ to fictional literary locations
Spanish anthology explores places created by authors such as Gabriel García Márquez and Chinua Achebe
April 2022
Barcelona honours Gabriel García Márquez with new library
The Colombian Nobel laureate, who lived in the city from 1967-75, is to have a €12m building specialising in Latin American literature named after him
October 2021
The Wardrobe of Gabriel García Márquez – in pictures
Four hundred items of clothing and accessories which belonged to García Márquez and his wife, Mercedes Barcha, go on sale this Wednesday to raise funds for a charity helping children of indigenous communities in Mexico
June 2021
Books that made me
Bill Clinton: ‘I always wanted to be a writer, but doubted my ability to do it’
The author and 42nd president of the United States on finding comfort in thrillers – and inspiration in William Styron, James Baldwin and Maya Angelou
May 2021
Books interview
Mateo García Elizondo: ‘I get a little bored by having to talk about my grandfather’
The writer – and grandson of Gabriel García Márquez – on Mexican folklore, his early love of horror and learning to live with the family’s literary legacy
