First Exhibition of Gabriel García Márquez Archive Opens Feb. 1
- Jan 28, 2020
- Harry Ransom Center
Selections from the archive of internationally renowned and Nobel Prize-winning author Gabriel García Márquez (1927–2014) will be on view for the first time during an exhibition opening Feb. 1 at the Harry Ransom Center at The University of Texas at Austin.
The bilingual exhibition, “Gabriel García Márquez: The Making of a Global Writer,” examines how the Colombian author who won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1982 became an international success soon after the publication of his 1967 novel, “One Hundred Years of Solitude” (“Cien años de soledad”). Now translated into more than 45 languages, the book has worldwide sales approaching 50 million copies.
“García Márquez is a ‘global’ writer because his stories continue to enter the lives of millions of readers worldwide every year,” curator Álvaro Santana-Acuña of Whitman College, said. “Generation after generation, readers find in his works, characters, situations, events, feelings, memories… that are meaningful to them.”
Read the full press release on UT News.
