Jorge Luis Borges
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Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges was an Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator regarded as a key figure in Spanish-language and international literature. His best-known works,
Borges in 1951
Borges in 1921
Adolfo Bioy Casares, Victoria Ocampo and Borges in 1935
Borges in the 1940s
Gabriel García Márquez
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Gabriel José García Márquez was a Colombian writer and journalist, known affectionately as Gabo or Gabito throughout Latin America. Considered one of the most significant authors of the 20th century,
Jorge Luis Borges
…international reputation was consolidated in the 1960s, aided by the growing number of English translations, the Latin American Boom, and by the success of García Márquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude. He dedicated his final work, The Conspirators, to the city of Geneva, Switzerland. Writer and essayist J. M. Coetzee…
García Márquez in 2002
García Márquez billboard in Aracataca: "I feel Latin American from whatever country, but I have never renounced the nostalgia of my homeland: Aracataca, to which I returned one day and discovered that between reality and nostalgia was the raw material for my work". —Gabriel García Márquez
García Márquez in 2009
The Gabriel García Márquez Cultural Center in Bogotá, Colombia.