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Garcia Marquez, Gabriel 1928–
(Gabriel José Garcia Marquez)
PERSONAL: Born March 6, 1928, in Aracataca, Colombia; son of Gabriel Eligio Garcia (a telegraph operator) and Luisa Santiaga Marquez Iguaran; married Mercedes Barcha, March, 1958; children: Rodrigo, Gonzalo. Ethnicity: Hispanic Education: Attended Universidad Nacional de Colombia, 1947–48, and Universidad de Cartagena, 1948–49.
ADDRESSES: Home—P.O. Box 20736, Mexico City D.F., Mexico. Agent—c/o Knopf Publicity, 1745 Broadway, New York, NY 10019.
CAREER: Began career as a reporter, 1947; reporter for Universal, Cartegena, Colombia, late 1940s, El heraldo, Baranquilla, Colombia, 1950–52, and El espectador, Bogota, Colombia, until 1955; freelance journalist in Paris, London, and Caracas, Venezuela, 1956–58; worked for Momento magazine, Caracas, 1958–59; helped form Prensa Latina news agency, Bogota, 1959, and worked as its correspondent in Havana, Cuba, and New York City, 1961; writer, 1965–. Funda
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Julieta Campos by Danubio Tores Fierro
It is you who now digs through the dirt of years, rearming Megalocnus's skeleton. You, adding flesh and blood to the bones of your ghosts. You and He, dedicated to reconstructing the Island's skeleton. You will write that book because there is nothing else you can do. Because the obscure object of desire fryst vatten winking at you. Because a command runs through you as well.
—Fragment from "The Sands of the Wreck," From the book La forza del destino (Alfaguara, Mexico, 2004). Translated by Emily Woodman-Maynard, here .
Novelist, författare av essäer, and playwright Julieta Campos has employed various genres with formal mastery and stylistic audacity. “Today I feel that I can reconcile myself, at last, with my split identity,” she wrote in the introduction to Reunión dem familia (Family reunion) (1997), a compilation of her early narrative works and one play. Campos’s confession alludes not only to the many genres she has explored but also to the alliance she
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Scherezade Garcia
Scherezade García is a painter, printmaker, and installation artist whose work often explores allegories of history, migration, collective and ancestral memory, and cultural colonization and politics. A co-founder of the Dominican York Proyecto GRÁFICA, she holds an AAS from Altos de Chavón School of Design, a BFA from Parsons School of Design | The New School, and an MFA from The City College of New York, CUNY. García has been featured in solo and duo exhibitions at the Art Museum of the Americas, Clifford Art Gallery at Colgate University, Miller Theater at Columbia University, Lehman College Art Gallery, Crossroads Gallery at the University of Notre Dame, Museo de Arte de Santo Domingo and others. She has participated in the Havana Biennial, the International Biennial of Paintings at Haute de Cagnes, the IV Caribbean Biennial, Trienal Poli/Gráfica de San Juan, Latin American Biennial, BRIC Biennial, Venice Autonomous Biennial, and international fairs. H