Gabriel Garcia Marquez (12 page)

GABRIEL GARCÍA MÁRQUEZ
(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 “magical realism.” 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 ÁNGEL RESTREPO
was a journalist for the literary supplement to the newspaper
El Colombiano
.

ERNESTO GONZÁLEZ 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 García Márquez
(1982).

PLINIO APULEYO MENDOZA
is the author of novels, works of political criticism, and two books about his longtime friendship with García Márquez. He ran the Bogotá office of the news agency Prensa Latina with García 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 “Best in Business” 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 AYÉN
has covered cultural affairs for
La Vanguardia
since 1991. He is the co-author, with the photographer Kim Manresa, of the book
Rebeldía 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.

KURT VONNEGUT: THE LAST INTERVIEW

“I 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.”

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LEARNING TO LIVE FINALLY: THE LAST INTERVIEW JACQUES DERRIDA

“I am at war with myself, it's true, you couldn't possibly know to what extent … I say contradictory things that are, we might say, in real tension; they are what construct me, make me live, and will make me die.”

translated by PASCAL-ANNE BRAULT and MICHAEL NAAS

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ROBERTO BOLAÑO: THE LAST INTERVIEW

“Posthumous: It sounds like the name of a Roman gladiator, an unconquered gladiator. At least that's what poor Posthumous would like to believe. It gives him courage.”

translated by SYBIL PEREZ and others

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DAVID FOSTER WALLACE: THE LAST INTERVIEW

“I don't know what you're thinking or what it's like inside you and you don't know what it's like inside me. In fiction … we can leap over that wall itself in a certain way.”

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JORGE LUIS BORGES: THE LAST INTERVIEW

“Believe me: the benefits of blindness have been greatly exaggerated. If I could see, I would never leave the house, I'd stay indoors reading the many books that surround me.”

translated by KIT MAUDE

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HANNAH ARENDT: THE LAST INTERVIEW

“There are no dangerous thoughts for the simple reason that thinking itself is such a dangerous enterprise.”

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RAY BRADBURY: THE LAST INTERVIEW

“You don't have to destroy books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.”

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JAMES BALDWIN: THE LAST INTERVIEW

“You don't realize that you're intelligent until it gets you into trouble.”

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