Description
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The digital archive of Colombian-born writer Gabriel García Márquez includes manuscript drafts of published and unpublished works, research material, photograph albums, scrapbooks, correspondence, clippings, notebooks, screenplays, printed material, ephemera, and an audio recording of Márquez’s acceptance speech for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1982. The searchable, online archive is comprised of approximately 27,500 pages from Márquez's papers, and was made possible by a grant from the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR). The center also gratefully acknowledges the cooperation of García Márquez's family. Born in Colombia, Márquez began his career as a journalist in the 1940s, reporting from Bogotá and Cartagena and later serving as a foreign correspondent in Europe and Cuba. In 1961, he moved to Mexico City. Alongside his prolific journalism career, Márquez published many works of fiction, including novels, novellas, and multiple short story collections and screenplays. Following the publication of his novel Cien Años de Soledad in 1967, he became best known for his fiction and achieved worldwide recognition as a gifted storyteller. He published the first volume of his three-part memoir Vivir Para Contarla (Living to Tell the Tale) in 2002. The papers of Gabriel García Márquez, acquired by the Ransom Center in 2014, include original manuscript material, predominantly in Spanish, for 10 books, more than 2,000 pieces of correspondence, drafts of his 1982 Nobel Prize acceptance speech, more than 40 photograph albums documenting all aspects of his life over nearly nine decades, the Smith Corona typewriters and computers on which he wrote some of the twentieth century's most beloved works, and scrapbooks meticulously documenting his career via news clippings from Latin America and around the world.
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