The best alternative festival in Guildford is back from 5th to 7th April 2024... For their 12th consecutive outing of live Alternative and Punk music at the heart of Guildford Surrey and the South East organisers have once again arranged a host of talent to entertain attendees. Festival goers can expect three packed days of
Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Colombian novelist and one of the greatest writers of the 20th century, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982, mostly for his masterpiece Cien anos de soledad (1967; One Hundred Years of Solitude). Learn more about his life and works in this article.
Yorkshire ska-punks RANDOM HAND celebrate their 20th Anniversary with a special two-day festival at the end of this month. The Keighley quartet will be taking over the Brudenell Social Club in Leeds on 27th and 28th January for Hand Fest, with a full supporting cast on both days, including sets from Sonic Boom Six, Rou
A book by a longtime friend of the Colombian legend includes never-before-released letters from when Garcia Marquez was writing his epic "One Hundred Years of Solitude."
In his early journalistic writings, the Colombian novelist Gabriel García Márquez showed he had an eye for factual details, in which he found the absurdity and 'magic' that would in time be the stuff and style of his fiction.
Even if you don't judge him South America's greatest writer, there's no denying that his life lived with joy and principle is the stuff of modern legend for a country, and continent.