An unpublished novel by Gabriel García Márquez, "See you in August", will appear published in 2024, the 10th anniversary of the death of the Colombian Nobel laureate, the Random House publishing house announced this Friday.
The new work by the author of "One Hundred Years of Solitude" or "Love in the Times of Cholera" will appear "in 2024 in all Spanish-speaking countries, except Mexico" and "it will undoubtedly be the most important editorial event of the next year," the publisher said in a statement.
"'See you in August' was the result of a last effort to continue creating against all odds," the writer's sons, Rodrigo and Gonzalo García Barcha, explained in the statement.
"Reading it once again almost ten years after his death, we discovered that the text had many and very enjoyable merits," added the children of the writer who died in Mexico on April 17, 2014, at the age of 87.
According to them, the novel contains "the most outstanding of Gabo's work: his capacity for invention, the poetry of language, the captivating narrative, his understanding of the human being and his affection for his experiences and misadventures, especially in love. , possibly the main theme of all his work".
Born on March 6, 1927 in the town of Aracataca, in the Caribbean area of Colombia, García Márquez, journalist and writer, left behind an extensive list of short stories and novels, such as "Story of a castaway", "Chronicle of a death announced ", "The colonel has no one to write to him", "News of a kidnapping", and the most popular of all, "One Hundred Years of Solitude".
This work earned him, in 1972, the Rómulo Gallegos Latin American novel prize, his first great distinction, which would be followed, in 1982, by the Nobel Prize for Literature.
Together with the Peruvian Mario Vargas Llosa, the Argentine Julio Cortázar or the Mexican Carlos Fuentes, he was part of what became known as "the Latin American boom", an editorial and literary phenomenon of the 1960s and 1970s that made them known throughout the world.
García Márquez is the most translated Spanish-language writer in the 21st century, more than Miguel de Cervantes, the Cervantes Institute revealed in April.
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